ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Weight Bias Internalization: The Maladaptive Effects of Moral Condemnation on Intrinsic Motivation.
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- Stigmatizing Media Portrayal of Obesity During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Exploring Responses to Body Weight Criticism: Defensive Avoidance When Weight Is Seen as Controllable.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Weight Bias Internalization as an Embodied Process: Understanding How Obesity Stigma Gets Under the Skin.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Weight stigma typically focuses on suggestions that people with overweight and obesity are incompetent and immoral. Integrating so far unconnected lines of research, the current research presents two studies that examine the motivational relevance of these aspects of weight stigma. Specifically, we tested the proposition that people with overweight and obesity respond differently to the public viewing them as incompetent compared to immoral, as these aspects of weight stigma differ in reparability. We expect that threats to competence are more acceptable and thus related to a constructive response that is more effective in losing weight in the long-run. By contrast, we propose that threats to morality elicit an acute urge to defend one's moral image, thereby prompting responses that are more visible to the social environment, but potentially less effective for losing weight. Study 1 experimentally compared exposure to weight stigma focused on morality vs. weight stigma focused on competence in a sample of adults with overweight and obesity (
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