The heavy weight of death: How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat
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In: Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 45, No. 3, 01.03.2015, p. 139-146.
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T1 - The heavy weight of death
T2 - How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat
AU - Seibert, Ann
AU - Schindler, Simon
AU - Reinhard, Marc André
PY - 2015/3/1
Y1 - 2015/3/1
N2 - 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. Merging insights from research on anti-fat bias, SIT, and terror management theory, our study (n=101) provides new insights on motivational aspects of anti-fat bias by investigating the effects of existential threat on the evaluation of non-overweight and overweight people. Results revealed that participants in the existential threat condition displayed in-group bias: Participants perceiving themselves as non-overweight showed more pronounced anti-fat bias compared with participants in the non-death threat condition. In contrast, participants perceiving themselves as overweight demonstrated less anti-fat bias than controls.
AB - 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. Merging insights from research on anti-fat bias, SIT, and terror management theory, our study (n=101) provides new insights on motivational aspects of anti-fat bias by investigating the effects of existential threat on the evaluation of non-overweight and overweight people. Results revealed that participants in the existential threat condition displayed in-group bias: Participants perceiving themselves as non-overweight showed more pronounced anti-fat bias compared with participants in the non-death threat condition. In contrast, participants perceiving themselves as overweight demonstrated less anti-fat bias than controls.
KW - Psychology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84924026030&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/jasp.12283
DO - 10.1111/jasp.12283
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84924026030
VL - 45
SP - 139
EP - 146
JO - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
SN - 0021-9029
IS - 3
ER -