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Weight Prejudice

Negative attitudes towards and beliefs about others because of their weight. These negative attitudes are manifested by stereotypes and/or prejudice towards people with weight over or under a cultural norm.

Year introduced: 2020

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Tree Number(s): F01.145.813.550.813, F01.829.595.813

MeSH Unique ID: D000079322

Entry Terms:

  • Prejudice, Weight
  • Anti-Fat Bias
  • Anti Fat Bias
  • Bias, Anti-Fat
  • Fatphobia
  • Fatphobias
  • Fat Phobia
  • Fat Phobias
  • Phobia, Fat
  • Phobias, Fat
  • Fat Bias
  • Bias, Fat
  • Obesity Bias
  • Bias, Obesity
  • Weight-Based Discrimination
  • Discrimination, Weight-Based
  • Discriminations, Weight-Based
  • Weight Based Discrimination
  • Weight-Based Discriminations
  • Fat Shaming
  • Shaming, Fat
  • Weight Stigma
  • Stigma, Weight
  • Weight Stigmas
  • Weight Bias
  • Bias, Weight

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