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How do looking patterns, anti-fat bias, and causal weight attributions relate to adults’ judgements of child weight? [PDF]
, 2023 Prevailing weight-normative approaches to health pressure adults to visually categorise children’s weight, despite little understanding of how such judgements are made.
Evans, Elizabeth H. +8 more
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Weight bias, weight-based discrimination and weighty consequences [PDF]
, 2017 Weight bias refers to negative attitudes and preconceptions, predominately directed towards people who are larger in size. This can often lead to discrimination in a range of contexts, including the workplace and educational institutions.
Craddock, Nadia, Nadia Craddock
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Does a Common Ingroup Identity Reduce Weight Bias? Only When Weight Discrimination Is Salient
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Compared to many other forms of social bias, weight bias is pervasive, socially accepted, and difficult to attenuate. According to the common ingroup identity model, strategies that expand group inclusiveness may promote more positive intergroup ...
Paula M. Brochu +4 more
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Spanish validation of the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-M) for adolescents [PDF]
, 2022 PURPOSE: Weight Bias Internalization (WBI) is pervasive and potentially damaging for health. Little is known about WBI in youth. As negative effects of WBI have been observed when controlling for BMI, measures that allow WBI to be assessed across ...
Montcada-Ribera, Albert +17 more
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Questioning the Ethics of Promoting Weight Loss in Clinical Practice
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2020 This case study considers the ethical defensibility of recommending weight loss as a treatment for patients with higher body mass indexes. Recommending weight loss may be motivated by clinicians’ biases toward people living in larger bodies ...
Andria Bianchi, Maria Ricupero
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The weight-inclusive vs. weight-normative approach to health: Evaluating the evidence for prioritizing well-being over weight [PDF]
, 2014 Using an ethical lens, this review evaluates two methods of working within patient care and public health: the weight-normative approach (emphasis on weight and weight loss when defining health and well-being) and the weight-inclusive approach (emphasis ...
Shuman, E. +13 more
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Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2021 Purpose: Weight stigma has become widespread within health care and disproportionately affects women, who are under greater appearance-based scrutiny than men.
Declan Watson +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This experimental study investigated the role of BMI on the impact of weight bias vs body positivity terminology on behavioral intentions and beliefs about obesity.
Sarah-Jane F. Stewart, Jane Ogden
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Weight bias and weight stigma in the healthcare system: hypothetical case
Revista de Bioética y Derecho, 2018 Obesity is considered as one of the most concerning nutritional diseases. Scientific evidence demonstrates that weight is determined by a complex interaction of internal and external factors, many of which are not controllable by individuals.
Santiago Peregalli Politi
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionWeight-based oppression (WBO) has been documented as a widespread phenomenon in Western countries and is associated with a range of psychological, physiological, and behavioral harms. Research on weight-based oppression is largely absent from
Lily O'Hara +2 more
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