Appreciation for fat jokes, belief in obese stereotypes linked

Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 03:31 in Psychology & Sociology

From movies to television, obesity is still considered “fair game” for jokes and ridicule. A new study took a closer look at weight-related humor to see if anti-fat attitudes played into a person’s appreciation or distaste for fat humor in the media.

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