Children often hold “essentialist” intuitions about social categories, viewing them as
reflecting people's intrinsic essences or biological natures. This intuition promotes prejudice …

Background Bariatric surgery for children and adolescents is becoming widespread.
However, the evidence is still scarce and of poor quality, and many of the patients are too …

Objective To explore possible links between adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MeD),
excess body weight, energy balance behaviors, and academic performance in Greek …

Children get involved in social categorization. Thus, they are able to stigmatize peers as well
as to show in-group favoritism theorized by Tajfel and Turner. Moreover, according to …

Introduction. Overweight and perception of being overweight, may lead adolescent to lose
weight. The aim of the present study was to investigate overweight adolescents' self …

The current study examined body satisfaction and the value of body size among adolescents
in Australia, Fiji, Malaysia, Tonga, Tongans in New Zealand, China, Chile and Greece. In …

OBJECTIVE: While the US today has the highest rates worldwide of obesity, Europe, and
particularly southern Europe, is catching up fast. The aim of this study was to report the …

The current study experimentally investigated the impact of causal‐explanatory information
on weight bias over development. Participants (n= 395, children ages 4–11 years and …

Striking weight biases emerge early in development, yet cognitive-developmental research
has largely ignored weight as a social characteristic of interest. How do children conceive of …

The experience of stigma is not one confined to the adult years. Children also have the
capacity to stereotype, to be prejudiced, and to discriminate against their peer. The aim of …