Publications: Weight bias

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Pickett Miller, N., '(Re)presenting The Big Grrrls' (2023), Fat Studies [online]
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Pictor, L.E., Laboe, A.A., Dillon, K., Frank, M., Gavuji, M., Krawczyk, A. & Schaumberg, K., 'A pilot randomized trial of the body advocacy movement: a novel, dissonance-based intervention designed to target fear of weight gain and anti-fat bias in young adults' (2024), Eating Disorders [online]
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Piedra, J. & Varea, V., '‘Operación Feria’: a critical analysis of body discourses on Instagram' (2023), Sport in Society [online]
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Pingitore, R., Dugoni, B.L., Tindale, R.S. & Spring, B., 'Bias against overweight job applicants in a simulated employment interview' (1994), Journal of Applied Psychology, 79(6), pp.909-917
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Puhl, R. & Brownell, K.D., 'Bias, discrimination, and obesity' (2012), Obesity Research, 9(12), pp.788-805
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Puhl, R., Andreyeva, T. & Brownell, K.D., 'Perceptions of weight discrimination: Prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America' (2008), International Journal of Obesity, 32(6), pp.992-1000
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Puhl, R.M. & King, K.M., 'Weight discrimination and bullying' (2013), Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 27(2), pp.117-127
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Puhl, R.M. & Latner, J.D., 'Stigma, obesity, and the health of the nation’s children' (2007), Psychological Bulletin, 133(4), pp.557-580
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Puhl, R.M., Andreyeva, T. & Brownell, K.D., 'Changes in perceived weight discrimination among Americans, 1995-1996 through 2004-2006' (2008), Obesity, 16(5), pp.1129-1134
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Puhl, R.M., Luedicke, J. & Heuer, C., 'Weight-based victimization toward overweight adolescents: Observations and reactions of peers' (2011), Journal of School Health, 81(11), pp.696-703
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Puhl, R.M., Moss-Racusin, C.A. & Schwartz, M.B., 'Internalization of weight bias: Implications for binge eating and emotional well-being' (2007), Obesity, 15(1), pp.19-23
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Puhl, R.M., Peterson, J.L. & Luedicke, J., 'Weight-based victimization: Bullying experiences of weight loss treatment-seeking youth' (2013), Pediatrics, 131(1), pp.e1-e9

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Roehling, M.V., 'Weight-based discrimination in employment: Psychological and legal aspects' (2006), Personnel Psychology, 52(4), pp.969-1016
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Roehling, M.V., 'Weight discrimination in the American workplace: Ethical issues and analysis' (2002), Journal of Business Ethics, 40(2), pp.177-189
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Roehling, M.V., Roehling, P.V. & Pichler, S., 'The relationship between body weight and perceived weight-related employment discrimination: The role of sex and race' (2007), Journal of Vocational Behavior, 71(2), pp.300-318
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Rothblum, E.D., Brand, P.A., Miller, C.T. & Oetjen, H.A., 'The relationship between obesity, employment discrimination, and employment-related victimization' (1990), Journal of Vocational Behavior, 37, pp.251-266
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Rudolph, C.W., Wells, C.L., Weller, M.D. & Baltes, B.B., 'A meta-analysis of empirical studies of weight-based bias in the workplace' (2009), Journal of Vocational Behavior, 74(1), pp.1-10
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Russell, H.A., 'Is It Time to Say Goodbye to BMI? A Commentary' (2024), Family and Community Health, 47(1), pp. 16–19
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Sabin, J.A., Marini, M. & Nosek, B.A., 'Implicit and explicit anti-fat bias among a large sample of medical doctors by BMI, race/ethnicity and gender' (2012), PLoS ONE, 7(11), Article number e48448
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Sall, K.E., Miller, J.C., Jansen, E., Shonrock, A.T., Byrd, R. & C., 'Sexual Assault Among College Women: The Role of Survivor Acknowledgment, Rape Myth Acceptance, Weight Bias, and Body Appreciation' (2024), Journal of Interpersonal Violence [online]
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Schvey, N.A., Puhl, R.M. & Brownell, K.D., 'The impact of weight stigma on caloric consumption' (2011), Obesity, 19(10), pp.1957-1962
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Shaw, J. & Walter, M., 'Tipping the scales: How defendant body type may result in eyewitness biases' (2015), Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
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Siqueira, B.B., de Souza, G.C.A., Japur, C.C. & de Oliveira Penaforte, F.R., '“The Other Person Does Not Deserve to be Remembered for the Amount of Fat They Have in Their Bodies”: Representations of Weight Stigma by Overweight Nutrition Students' (2023), Trends in Psychology [online]
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Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., Tovee, M.J. & Voracek, M., 'An investigation of weight bias against women and its associations with individual difference factors' (2010), Body Image, 7(3), pp.194-199
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Taylor, A., Mitchell, A. & Rice, C., 'Performing Fat Liberation: Pretty Porky and Pissed Off’s Affective Politics and Archive' (2023), Social Sciences, 12(5), 270
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Telo, G.H., Friedrich Fontoura, L., Avila, G.O., Gheno, V., Bertuzzo Brum, M.A., Teixeira, J.B., Erthal, I.N., Alessi, J. & Telo, G.H, 'Obesity bias: How can this underestimated problem affect medical decisions in healthcare? A systematic review' (2024), Obesity Reviews [online]
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Tsai, Y.-S. & Chang, Y.-Y., 'Can generative models be used to detect hate speech related to body shaming?' (2023), ROCLING 2023 - Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, pp. 270–278
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Turner, S.L., 'Pediatric healthcare professionals’ attitudes and beliefs about weight stigma: A descriptive study' (2024), Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 75, pp. 64–71
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van Geel, M., Vedder, P. & Tanilon, J., 'Are overweight and obese youths more often bullied by their peers? A meta-analysis on the correlation between weight status and bullying' (2014), International Journal of Obesity, 38(10), pp.1263-1267
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Vartanian, L.R. & Shaprow, J.G., 'Effects of weight stigma on exercise motivation and behavior: A preliminary investigation among college-aged females' (2008), Journal of Health Psychology, 13(1), pp.131-138
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Waldrop, S.W., Wang, D., Kancherla, D. & Stanford, F.C., 'Current status of weight bias and stigma in pediatrics and the need for greater focus on populations at risk' (2024), Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 36(1), pp. 42–48
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Wanniarachchi, V.U., Scogings, C., Susnjak, T. & Mathrani, A., 'Hate Speech Patterns in Social Media: A Methodological Framework and Fat Stigma Investigation Incorporating Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modelling and Discourse Analysis' (2023), Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 27
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Wetzel, K.E. & Himmelstein, M.S., 'Health Care Avoidance as Vigilance: A Model of Maladaptive Eating Behaviors Due to Weight Stigma in Health Care, Avoidance, and Internalization Among Women' (2023), Stigma and Health [online]
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Winter, E.L., Bellara, A.P., Bray, M.A., Puhl, R.M., Kaufman, A.S., Trudel, S.M. & La Salle-Finley, T., 'Fat Phobia Among Youth Sport Coaches' (2024), Journal of Sport and Social Issues [online]
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Zeller, M.H., Reiter-Purtill, J. & Ramey, C., 'Negative peer perceptions of obese children in the classroom environment' (2008), Obesity, 16(4), pp.755-762
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