Visual body size norms and the under-detection of overweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT: Objectives:The weight status of men with overweight and obesity tends to be visually underestimated, but visual recognition of female overweight and obesity has not been formally examined. The aims of the present studies were to test whether people can accurately recognize both male and female overweight and obesity and to examine a visual norm-based explanation for why weight status is underestimated. Methods:The present studies examine whether both male and female overweight and obesity are visually underestimated (Study 1), whether body size norms predict when underestimation of weight status occurs (Study 2) and whether visual exposure to heavier body weights adjusts visual body size norms and results in underestimation of weight status (Study 3). Results:The weight status of men and w

SUBMITTER: Oldham M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5818735 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature