The effects of a teaching intervention on weight bias among kinesiology undergraduate students.
Nadeeja Niranjalie WijayatungaYoungdeok KimWinfield S ButschEmily J DhurandharPublished in: International journal of obesity (2005) (2019)
"Blame" component of explicit weight bias significantly decreased when students learned about controllable causes of obesity and weight bias, but implicit bias did not reduce. However, implicit weight bias appears to increase when education on obesity is limited to diet and exercise interventions as taught in the traditional curriculum.