Does a Common Ingroup Identity Reduce Weight Bias? Only When Weight Discrimination Is Salient

When does activating diversity alleviate, when does it increase intergroup bias? An ingroup projection perspective

The question how intergroup bias can be alleviated is of much theoretical and practical interest. Whereas diversity training and the multiculturalism ideology are two approaches prominent in practice, most theoretical models on reducing intergroup bias are based on social-identity theory and self-categorization theory. This social-identity perspective assumes that similar processes lead to inte...

Does weight loss reduce plasma fibrinogen?

The Stigma of Obesity: Does Perceived Weight Discrimination Affect Identity and Physical Health?

Obesity is widely recognized as a health risk, but it also represents a disadvantaged social position. Viewing body weight within the framework of stigma and its effects on life chances, we examine how perceived weight-based discrimination influences identity and physical health. Using national survey data with a 10-year longitudinal follow-up, we consider whether perceptions of weight discrimi...

A Common Weight Data Envelopment Analysis Approach for Material Selection

Material selection is one of the major problems in manufacturing environments since the improper selected material may lead to fail in the production processes and result in customer dissatisfaction and cost inefficiency. Every material has different properties which should be considered as major criteria during the material selection procedure. Selection criteria could be quantitative or quali...

Weight Discrimination by Octopus

Blinded octopuses can readily be taught to discriminate between objects touched provided that these differ in 'roughness'; objects with equally irregular surfaces, differing only in the distribution of irregularities, and objects of similar texture but different shape, are not distinguished. It seems that the animals are incapable of learning to recognize specific patterns of stimulation in the...