Implicit anti-fat bias among health professionals: is anyone immune?

By B. Teachman, K. Brownell. International Journal of Obesity, 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Pharmacy

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Holding on to our functional roots when exploring new intellectual islands: A voyage through implicit cognition research (2012, background): “…when stimuli are mapped to the same response option (Over Weight–Bad; Average Weight–Good) versus different response options (Over Weight–Good; Average Weight–Bad) allows for an inference to be made about how those stimuli are automatically associated in memory (e.g., Teachman & Brownell, 2001).”
The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update (2009, background): “Participants also endorsed the explicit belief that thin people are more motivated than fat people (39).”
Contact, Perspective Taking, and Anxiety as Predictors of Stereotype Endorsement, Explicit Attitudes, and Implicit Attitudes (2007, background): “Contact with the elderly was unrelated to implicit bias toward older adults ( Jelenec & Steffens, 2002) and contact with the obese did not infl uence implicit anti-fat bias (Teachman & Brownell, 2001).”
Psychosocial origins of obesity stigma: toward changing a powerful and pervasive bias (2003, background): “It is even the case that health care professionals specializing in the treatment of obesity hold negative attitudes (19).”
Confronting and Coping with Weight Stigma: An Investigation of Overweight and Obese Adults (2006, result): “This finding also supports previous research indicating that health care professionals are not immune to weight bias (11,35,36) because doctors were the most frequent source of stigma reported by women and the second most frequent source reported by men.”
Weight bias among health professionals specializing in obesity. (2003, methodology): “The full sample, however, exhibited higher levels of lazy-motivated bias and comparable levels of good-bad bias as other published samples (10,11).”
Bias, discrimination, and obesity. (2001, background): “In cases where explicit attitude measures show little or no bias, implicit measures show significant bias, even in health professionals who specialize in the treatment of obese persons (141).”