Marissa Wagner Oehlhof

TL;DR: Weight bias among treatment-seeking adults is associated with greater psychological maladjustment and may interfere with their ability to achieve optimal health and well-being.

TL;DR: Self-objectification theory is a useful framework for understanding body image issues in men, however, the relation between self- objectification and other body related variables may differ for men and women.

TL;DR: Despite equivalent outcomes at the end of treatment, the Transforming Your Life participants were significantly more effective at maintaining their weight loss than New Perspectives participants during the 6-month no-treatment follow-up period.

TL;DR: A novel approach to measuring internalized weight bias is examined to examine the correspondence between individuals’ ratings of obese people, normal weight people, and themselves on personality traits to provide insights into social comparison processes involved in weight bias.

TL;DR: Differences in preschoolers' ratings of anti-fat bias and identification of current body size depending on the realism of the figure array used: computer generated line-drawn or photographic are examined to suggest that some of the anti- fat bias observed in preschooler is attributable to less realistic figure arrays.