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Associations Between Weight Perception and Weight Status With Perceptions of the Body Positivity Movement

American Journal of Health Promotion
Purpose To explore the relationships between weight status, weight perceptions, and perceptions of the body positivity movement on social media. Design Cross-sectional. Setting Online through the Qualtrics platform. Subjects Participants (N = 521; mean 26.6 ± 5.1 years) were recruited using Qualtrics online panels.
Kristie Rupp, Stephanie M. McCoy
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Visual perception of lifted weight.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
The weight of a box can be seen by observing another person lifting and carrying it. Evidence is provided in two experiments, the first of which employed videotaped events with the actor and box visible only as 21 bright patches. Observers judged the weight of the box rather linearly with an average slope of .87 and with a pooled standard deviation of ...
S, Runeson, G, Frykholm
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Weight perception and weight management via information nudges

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Being overweight or obese is a serious public health problem. Misperception of one's own weight status and inertia are major obstacles to weight control. To overcome these two problems, we conduct a randomized controlled trial in which participants are presented with the correct weight category based on their body mass index to remove any weight ...
Lanjie Wang   +3 more
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Marital status and body weight, weight perception, and weight management among U.S. adults

Eating Behaviors, 2013
Married individuals often have higher body weights than unmarried individuals, but it is unclear how marital roles affect body weight-related perceptions, desires, and behaviors. This study analyzed cross-sectional data for 4,089 adult men and 3,989 adult women using multinomial logistic regression to examine associations between marital status ...
Lori A, Klos, Jeffery, Sobal
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Shifting Perceptions of Women's Weight

Abstract Body weight has a long history of functioning as a symbol of one’s beauty, social status, morality, discipline, and health. It has also been a standard inflicted much more intensely on women than men. While US culture has long idealized thinness for women, even at risky extremes, there is growing evidence that weight standards ...
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Relevant information for weight perception

Neuroscience Research, 2009
Yasuharu Koike, Hiroyuki Kambara
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Health and Weight Perceptions of Obese Students

The Nurse Practitioner, 2003
Beverly J, Volicer   +3 more
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