WWS 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ingroups And Outgroups, Protestant Work Ethic
3 Dec 2018
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Individuals subject to stigma might take negative feedback and attribute it to the other person"s bias, thus protecting themselves. Weight is often thought to be controllable. Stigma is somewhat held by ingroup members. Perceivers blame target more when weight is thought of as controllable. Particularly perceivers who believe the social system is fair. Target blames self more when weight is thought of as controllable. Saw pictures of white women of different weights. Looked at pictures of white and black women. Findings: black women are not being rated differentially based on their size. Weight: schwartz et al. , 2006: weight bias. Gave about 4000 people who came to weightbias. org several measures. Findings: preference for thin vs heavy weight. As participants have a higher bmi, the size of this preference decreases. Explicit effects are smaller than implicit effects. Surveyed parents of 4th & 5th grade children. Participants reported child"s weight (among a bunch of other filler questions)
