Cancer Society of New Zealand, Social & Behavioural Research Unit, Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Eat Weight Disord. 2009 Jun-Sep;14(2-3):e153-7. doi: 10.1007/BF03327815.
Prejudice towards obese people is widespread and has negative consequences for individuals with obesity. The present study covertly examined whether participants spontaneously generate different written transcript content (i.e., more negative stereotypes) when presented with a picture of an obese person or a normal-weight person. Two pictures of young women were computer generated to appear identical in all features except for body shape, which was either obese or normal-weight. Forty-nine women blind to the nature of the study were randomized to receive either the obese or normal-weight picture and asked to write a free-response description of a typical "day in the life" of the woman depicted. Independent coding of the transcripts revealed more frequent negative stereotypes and more negative valence generated by participants asked to describe a typical day of the obese target. These differences are consistent with the prevalent negative stereotypes of obese individuals.
对肥胖者的偏见很普遍，对肥胖者个人有负面影响。本研究暗中考察了当参与者看到肥胖者或正常体重者的照片时，是否会自发地生成不同的书面文字内容（即更多的负面刻板印象）。通过计算机生成了两张年轻女性的照片，除了体型（肥胖或正常体重）之外，所有特征都完全相同。49 名对研究性质一无所知的女性被随机分配到接受肥胖或正常体重的照片，并被要求写出描述所描绘女性典型“日常生活”的自由反应描述。对文字记录的独立编码显示，要求描述肥胖目标典型一天的参与者产生的负面刻板印象更频繁，负面评价更高。这些差异与对肥胖者的普遍负面刻板印象一致。
