Celebrity fat shaming has ripple effects on women's implicit anti-fat attitudes

(Society for Personality and Social Psychology) Comparing 20 instances of celebrity fat-shaming with women's implicit attitudes about weight before and after the event, psychologists from McGill University found that instances of celebrity fat-shaming were associated with an increase in women's implicit negative weight-related attitudes. They also found that from 2004-2015, implicit weight bias was on the rise more generally.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news