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The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias
The pervasiveness of explicit and implicit weight bias (WB) defined as negative stereotypes and prejudice regarding one’s weight has been observed among individuals of all weight categories. As a source of WB, health messages have been discussed due to reinforcing stigmatizing notions. The present s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28123375 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02064 |
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description | The pervasiveness of explicit and implicit weight bias (WB) defined as negative stereotypes and prejudice regarding one’s weight has been observed among individuals of all weight categories. As a source of WB, health messages have been discussed due to reinforcing stigmatizing notions. The present study sought to investigate whether health messages (i.e., eat healthy, become physically active) have the potential to increase explicit and implicit WB. Participants (N = 144) from the community were randomized to either an experimental group (EG) or a control group (CG). While the EG was presented with health messages, the CG was presented with neutral information. Before and after manipulation, participants completed measures of explicit and implicit WB. Paired samples t-test revealed no differences in explicit WB after manipulation, however, a small effect decrease of implicit WB in the EG but not in the CG was found. This study provided evidence that health messages might have differential impact to change WB. According to dual-model approaches, explicit and implicit WB tap into two different information processing systems, and thus were differentially affected by health messages. Brief exposure to health messages might have the potential to contribute to health behavior and to mitigate implicit WB. |
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spelling | pubmed-52250972017-01-25 The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias Rudolph, Almut Hilbert, Anja Front Psychol Psychology The pervasiveness of explicit and implicit weight bias (WB) defined as negative stereotypes and prejudice regarding one’s weight has been observed among individuals of all weight categories. As a source of WB, health messages have been discussed due to reinforcing stigmatizing notions. The present study sought to investigate whether health messages (i.e., eat healthy, become physically active) have the potential to increase explicit and implicit WB. Participants (N = 144) from the community were randomized to either an experimental group (EG) or a control group (CG). While the EG was presented with health messages, the CG was presented with neutral information. Before and after manipulation, participants completed measures of explicit and implicit WB. Paired samples t-test revealed no differences in explicit WB after manipulation, however, a small effect decrease of implicit WB in the EG but not in the CG was found. This study provided evidence that health messages might have differential impact to change WB. According to dual-model approaches, explicit and implicit WB tap into two different information processing systems, and thus were differentially affected by health messages. Brief exposure to health messages might have the potential to contribute to health behavior and to mitigate implicit WB. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5225097/ /pubmed/28123375 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02064 Text en Copyright © 2017 Rudolph and Hilbert. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Rudolph, Almut Hilbert, Anja The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias |
title | The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias |
title_full | The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias |
title_fullStr | The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias |
title_short | The Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias |
title_sort | effects of obesity-related health messages on explicit and implicit weight bias |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28123375 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02064 |
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