Midterm 1, Part 1, Study Guide

Study Guide – Rankism and Weightism

Lecture on rankism

1. Which types of bias are forms of rankism?
2. Characteristics of social hierarchies

What Makes You Click? — Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating

1. According to the study “What Makes You click,” how much additional income is needed for a woman taller than median height (5’ 5.5”) to be as successful on online dating sites as a median height woman?
2. According to the study “What Makes You click,” in order for a 5’ 2’’ tall man to be as desirable to a woman as a man who is 5’ 11.5’’ tall (median height) and who earns $62,500 per year (median income), he needs to have an additional income of how much?

Confronting and Coping with Weight Stigma: An Investigation of Overweight and Obese Adults

1. The majority of respondents reported what kinds of problems or disadvantages?
2. What percent of respondent experienced job discrimination?
3. What percent of respondents have been attacked?

The Influence of One’s Own Body Weight on Implicit and Explicit Anti-fat Bias

1. For what categories of respondent’s weight, was fat implicitly associated with bad, and thin associated with good?
2. What percent of underweight respondents would rather have a drug-addicted child than an obese child?
3. On the standard stereotype implicit association test, did respondents moderately associate fat people with lazy and thin people with motivated?
4. On the explicit attitude test, were there differences in respondents’ attitudes with respect to preferences and beliefs about fat and thin people? What were the differences?
5. What percent of respondents reported that they would be willing to give up at least 1 year of life rather than be obese?
6. What percent of respondents reported that they would rather be divorced than obese?
7. What percent of respondents reported that they would rather be unable to have children than be obese?

Occupational Characteristics and the Obesity Wage Penalty

1. Overweight women experience a wage penalty of about how much per hour (what percent); compare this figure to overweight men, who experience a wage premium of how much?
2. Obese women are less likely to work in jobs that emphasize what?
3. According to Jennifer Bennett Shinall, what kind of discrimination may explain some of the wage penalty? Employers may be concerned that their customers consider obesity less palatable for women than for men.