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Bethany A. Teachman

Researcher at University of Virginia

Publications -  230
Citations -  8903

Bethany A. Teachman is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Social anxiety. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 207 publications receiving 7428 citations. Previous affiliations of Bethany A. Teachman include University of British Columbia & Yale University.

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Implicit anti-fat bias among health professionals: is anyone immune?

TL;DR: Even health care specialists have strong negative associations toward obese persons, indicating the pervasiveness of the stigma toward obesity, and there appears to be a buffering factor related to their experience in caring for obese patients, which reduces the bias.
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Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated implicit biases and their modifiability, against overweight persons and found strong implicit anti-fat attitudes and stereotypes using the Implicit Association Test, despite no explicit antifat bias.
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Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

TL;DR: COVID-19 is conceptualized as a unique, compounding, multidimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and training.