This thesis aims to examine the consequences the stigma of overweight among young women who perceive themselves as overweight (whether this perception is justified or not), via the phenomenon of stereotype threat (Steele & Aronson, 1995). We propose that threatening contexts (in which negative stereotypes are about the eating behaviours of overweight people are activated), can (i) bias overweight self-perceived women's nutritional values assessment, and thus lead them to select dishes that are not adapted to their needs, and (ii) increase their consumption of comfort food. The experimental studies of this doctoral work tend to confirm these hypotheses: their results indicate that the more young women think they are overweight, (i) the less ...
Society stigmatizes overweight people. Overweight women with binge eating disorder (BED), appear to ...
Fear and stigmatization are often used to motivate overweight individuals to engage in healthy behav...
The present doctoral research aims to investigate body image disturbances and associated psychologic...
Cette thèse a pour objectif l’examen des conséquences de la stigmatisation du surpoids chez les jeun...
Excessive weight is a public health issue. In fact, obesity and overweight affect around 45% of the ...
La problématique de l’excès de poids représente un enjeu de santé publique. En effet, l’obésité, et,...
Across two experiments, we set out to explore whether palatable food—densely caloric, low nutrition ...
Stereotype threat is the experience of apprehension that individuals feel in situations where their ...
In recent years concerns about an ‘epidemic of obesity’ and its associated implications for health h...
El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restriccion...
The overweight are consistently presented in the media as lazy, sloppy, and unintelligent. Previous ...
The effects of stereotype threat on the eating behaviours and intellectual performance of overweight...
Overweight individuals face significant prejudice and discrimination in daily life yet it is not wel...
Thirty one overweight and 32 average weight caucasian women between the ages of 25 and 40 were studi...
The overweight are consistently presented in the media as lazy, sloppy and unintelligent. Previous r...
Society stigmatizes overweight people. Overweight women with binge eating disorder (BED), appear to ...
Fear and stigmatization are often used to motivate overweight individuals to engage in healthy behav...
The present doctoral research aims to investigate body image disturbances and associated psychologic...
Cette thèse a pour objectif l’examen des conséquences de la stigmatisation du surpoids chez les jeun...
Excessive weight is a public health issue. In fact, obesity and overweight affect around 45% of the ...
La problématique de l’excès de poids représente un enjeu de santé publique. En effet, l’obésité, et,...
Across two experiments, we set out to explore whether palatable food—densely caloric, low nutrition ...
Stereotype threat is the experience of apprehension that individuals feel in situations where their ...
In recent years concerns about an ‘epidemic of obesity’ and its associated implications for health h...
El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restriccion...
The overweight are consistently presented in the media as lazy, sloppy, and unintelligent. Previous ...
The effects of stereotype threat on the eating behaviours and intellectual performance of overweight...
Overweight individuals face significant prejudice and discrimination in daily life yet it is not wel...
Thirty one overweight and 32 average weight caucasian women between the ages of 25 and 40 were studi...
The overweight are consistently presented in the media as lazy, sloppy and unintelligent. Previous r...
Society stigmatizes overweight people. Overweight women with binge eating disorder (BED), appear to ...
Fear and stigmatization are often used to motivate overweight individuals to engage in healthy behav...
The present doctoral research aims to investigate body image disturbances and associated psychologic...