Impact of weight and health-behavior information on evaluations of girls' health.
The dominant public health narrative equates excess weight with poor health, and previous research has demonstrated that people judge adults with higher body weights as being in poor health, even when they engage in healthy lifestyles. The present study investigated whether the same pattern of belie...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Behavioral Medicine Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 308 - 317 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2025
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