Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency.
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| Title: | Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency. |
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| Authors: | Sim, Mattea1 (AUTHOR) matsim@iu.edu, Almaraz, Steven M.2 (AUTHOR), Hugenberg, Kurt1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. Sep2022, Vol. 48 Issue 9, p1367-1381. 15p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Cognitive ability, *Discrimination (Sociology), *Sensory perception, Mentalization, Categorization (Psychology), Discrimination against overweight persons |
| Abstract: | Five experiments investigate the hypothesis that heavier weight individuals are denied mental agency (i.e., higher order cognitive and intentional capacities), but not experience (e.g., emotional and sensory capacities), relative to average weight individuals. Across studies, we find that as targets increase in weight, they are denied mental agency; however, target weight has no reliable influence on ascriptions of experience (Studies 1a-2b). Furthermore, the de-mentalization of heavier weight targets was associated with both disgust and beliefs about targets' physical agency (Study 3). Finally, de-mentalization affected role assignments. Heavier weight targets were rated as helpful for roles requiring experiential but not mentally agentic faculties (Study 4). Heavier weight targets were also less likely than chance to be categorized into a career when it was described as requiring mental agency (versus experience; Study 5). These findings suggest novel insights into past work on weight stigma, wherein discrimination often occurs in domains requiring mental agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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