Leah Kaufmann

Dec 19, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Leah Brennan |Leah Kaufmann |Angela Meadows |Hugh Bidstrup

1 INTRODUCTION Weight stigma is broadly defined as the pervasive social devaluation that individuals perceive, experience, anticipate, and internalize because of their weight.1, 2 Experiences and perceptions of weight stigma can manifest in a variety of forms, such as negative depictions of individuals with higher weight in the media (e.g., characters Hitchcock and Scully in the popular sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine being depicted as lazy, dirty, and preoccupied and obsessed with food), negative...