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Can television change anti-fat attitudes and behavior?

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Gapinski, KD; Schwartz, MB; Brownell, KD
Published in: Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research
January 1, 2006

This work investigated negative attitudes toward overweight people and whether anti-fat attitudes and behavior could be reduced by media-based empathy and classical conditioning interventions. Participants were first primed by an empathy-evoking video of obese persons or a non-weight-related control video. Next, they viewed either a video portraying obese persons positively (e.g., as competent) or negatively (e.g., as clumsy). Participants completed outcome measures of implicit and explicit weight-related attitudes and participated in a covert behavioral task (competence ratings of thin and overweight job applicants). Results confirm strong implicit and explicit anti-fat bias across conditions, yet participants rated overweight job applicants more highly in most domains while disfavoring overweight candidates on a personal level. Overall, bias persisted despite video interventions, although surprisingly the negative (stereotypic) video was associated with somewhat reduced bias. Relationships among implicit bias, explicit bias, individual-difference variables, and awareness of obesity as a social problem are explored and discussed. Copyright © 2006 by Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research

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ISSN

1071-2089

Publication Date

January 1, 2006

Volume

11

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1 / 28

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Gapinski, K. D., Schwartz, M. B., & Brownell, K. D. (2006). Can television change anti-fat attitudes and behavior? Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 11(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9861.2006.tb00017.x
Gapinski, K. D., M. B. Schwartz, and K. D. Brownell. “Can television change anti-fat attitudes and behavior?Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9861.2006.tb00017.x.
Gapinski KD, Schwartz MB, Brownell KD. Can television change anti-fat attitudes and behavior? Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. 2006 Jan 1;11(1):1–28.
Gapinski, K. D., et al. “Can television change anti-fat attitudes and behavior?Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 1–28. Scopus, doi:10.1111/j.1751-9861.2006.tb00017.x.
Gapinski KD, Schwartz MB, Brownell KD. Can television change anti-fat attitudes and behavior? Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. 2006 Jan 1;11(1):1–28.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research

DOI

ISSN

1071-2089

Publication Date

January 1, 2006

Volume

11

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1 / 28

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology