Does a Common Ingroup Identity Reduce Weight Bias? Only When Weight Discrimination Is Salient.

ABSTRACT: Compared to many other forms of social bias, weight bias is pervasive, socially accepted, and difficult to attenuate. According to the common ingroup identity model, strategies that expand group inclusiveness may promote more positive intergroup attitudes and behaviors, particularly when people are aware of unjust treatment of others included within their shared identity. Considering that most people are not aware of the social justice issue of weight discrimination, we hypothesized that a common ingroup identity would be effective in reducing weight bias primarily when unfair weight-based treatment was made salient (i.e., that fat people experience discrimination in employment). Participants were randomly assigned to conditions following a 3 (discrimination salience: weight discrimination

SUBMITTER: Brochu PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6985568 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature