Nova Hinman

TL;DR: Findings suggest that individuals attempting to lose weight while combating symptoms of food addiction may be especially prone to eating-related pathologies, internalized weight bias, and body shame.

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: Results indicate that anti‐fat attitudes increase after brief exposure to weight‐loss reality television, and participants who had lower BMIs and were not trying to lose weight had significantly higher levels of dislike of overweight individuals following exposure to The Biggest Loser compared to similar participants in the control condition.

TL;DR: The stereotypical portrayal of individuals with obesity was related to implicit anti-fat attitudes, which may have implications for the development, maintenance, and expression of stigmatizing anti- fat attitudes.