Psychiatry and Psychology

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.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

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.

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Synonyms

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

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2020

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  1. F01.145.813w.550w.813w
  2. F01.829w.595w.813w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Weight Prejudice. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000079322. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000079322
  2. Weight Prejudice. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stigma_of_obesity
  3. Weight Prejudice. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7074872