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The heavy weight of death: How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat

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The heavy weight of death : How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat. / Seibert, Ann; Schindler, Simon; Reinhard, Marc André.

In: Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 45, No. 3, 01.03.2015, p. 139-146.

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Harvard

Seibert, A, Schindler, S & Reinhard, MA 2015, 'The heavy weight of death: How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat', Journal of Applied Social Psychology, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12283

APA

Seibert, A., Schindler, S., & Reinhard, M. A. (2015). The heavy weight of death: How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45(3), 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12283

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Seibert A, Schindler S, Reinhard MA. The heavy weight of death: How anti-fat bias is affected by weight-based group membership and existential threat. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 2015 Mar 1;45(3):139-146. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12283

Bibtex

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abstract = "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.",
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