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Weight Bias in Romantic Relationships

open access: yes, 2020
Preregistration of hypotheses aimed at examining the role of weight bias in romantic ...
Emma Elizabeth Altgelt
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Examining the effect of weight‐related recruitment information on participant characteristics: A randomized field experiment

open access: yesObesity Science & Practice
Objective Although 82% of American adults have a body mass index (BMI) of over 25, individuals with elevated BMI are considered difficult to recruit for studies.
Christy Wang   +5 more
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Challenging the role of social norms regarding body weight as an explanation for weight, height, and BMI misreporting biases: Development and application of a new approach to examining misreporting and misclassification bias in surveys

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2011
Background Cultural pressures to be thin and tall are postulated to cause people to misreport their body weight and height towards more socially normative (i.e., desirable) values, but a paucity of direct evidence supports this idea. We developed a novel
Van den Broeck Jan   +2 more
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The heavy weight of death: How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat

open access: yes, 2015
Anti-fat bias is marked by a devaluation of overweight people compared with non-overweight persons. Even though belonging to the same group, research on social identity theory (SIT) indicates that overweight people also devaluate overweight others ...
Marc‐André Reinhard   +5 more
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Study protocol: differential effects of diet and physical activity based interventions in pregnancy on maternal and fetal outcomes--individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis and health economic evaluation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
© 2014 Ruifrok et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Kerry, S.   +263 more
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How to lose weight bias fast! Evaluating a brief anti-weight bias intervention

open access: yes, 2011
Although experiencing weight bias is associated with poor physical and psychological health, health professionals often stigmatize overweight and obese clients.
Diedrichs, Phillippa C.   +4 more
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The relationship between internalised weight bias and biopsychosocial outcomes in children and youth: a systematic review

open access: yesJournal of Eating Disorders
Objective To synthesise the evidence on the relationships between internalised weight bias (IWB) and biopsychosocial health outcomes in individuals ≤ 25 years.
Tiarna Foster   +2 more
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Relationship between perceived body weight and body mass index based on self- reported height and weight among university students: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries

open access: yes, 2010
Mikolajczyk RT, Maxwell AE, El Ansari W, Stock C, Petkeviciene J, Guillen-Grima F. Relationship between perceived body weight and body mass index based on self- reported height and weight among university students: a cross-sectional study in seven ...
El Ansari, Walid   +26 more
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Current trends and future directions in internalized weight stigma research: a scoping review and synthesis of the literature

open access: yesJournal of Eating Disorders
Background Since the first papers focused on internalized weight stigma were published in the mid 2000’s, the literature has grown into a robust field that complements existing knowledge on weight stigma.
Sarah Nutter   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential unintended consequences of graphic warning labels on sugary drinks: do they promote obesity stigma?

open access: yesObesity Science & Practice, 2019
Summary Introduction Public health interventions need to balance the benefits with any potential harms. One proposed intervention for reducing sugar‐sweetened beverage consumption involves placing graphic warning labels on products and advertisements.
L. E. Hayward, L. R. Vartanian
doaj   +1 more source

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