The last prejudice?

Christian Century, Nov 15, 2003

Marlene Schwartz, at psychology researcher at Yale University who has been studying how people respond to those who are overweight, has discovered that negative associations persist even among health professionals who specialize in obesity. Although not as severe in their view as the general population, they still tend to associate their obese patients with such attributes as laziness, stupidity and worthlessness.

Schwartz says she is yet to find a group that doesn't have positive associations with "thin people" and negative ones with "fat people." The test Schwartz uses can be found at www.weightbias.org (Yale Herald, October 3).