Self-identified Obese People Request Less Money: A Field Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Empirical evidence suggests that obese people are discriminated in different social environments, such as the work place. Yet, the degree to which obese people are internalizing and adjusting their own behavior as a result of this discriminatory behavior has not been thoroughly studied. We develop a proxy for measuring experimentally the "self-weight bias" by giving to both self-identified obese (n = 90) and non-obese (n = 180) individuals the opportunity to request a positive amount of money after having performed an identical task. Consistent with the System Justification Theory, we find that self-identified obese individuals, due to a preexisting false consciousness, request significantly lower amounts of money than non-obese ones. A within subject comparison betwee

SUBMITTER: Proestakis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5033972 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature