Fattributions: Exploring a female target-driven communication strategy for reducing blame in a fatist culture

This study explores whether anti-fat bias is reduced when obesity in women is perceived to be the result of an uncontrollable versus controllable factor. An experiment was designed to test whether manipulating the causal attribution in favor of the target (i.e., offering an uncontrollable attributi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Triplett, Laura
Other Authors: Emmers-Sommer, Tara
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194978