Overweight people have low levels of implicit weight bias, but overweight nations have high levels of implicit weight bias.

ABSTRACT: Although a greater degree of personal obesity is associated with weaker negativity toward overweight people on both explicit (i.e., self-report) and implicit (i.e., indirect behavioral) measures, overweight people still prefer thin people on average. We investigated whether the national and cultural context - particularly the national prevalence of obesity - predicts attitudes toward overweight people independent of personal identity and weight status. Data were collected from a total sample of 338,121 citizens from 71 nations in 22 different languages on the Project Implicit website (https://implicit.harvard.edu/) between May 2006 and October 2010. We investigated the relationship of the explicit and implicit weight bias with the obesity both at the individual (i.e., across individuals) a

SUBMITTER: Marini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3866190 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature