摘要：Integrating a dehumanization perspective with the literature on stereotyping of obesity, this paper investigated whether obese people are implicitly categorized as animals rather than humans. Sixty participants were asked to complete an Implicit Association Test in which they had to associate images of thin and obese faces with animal or human characteristics. As predicted, people were more likely to categorize images of obese faces as animal-like and this tendency was more acute amongst thinner participants. Implications of our results for future on research on dehumanization and negative stereotyping of obesity are discussed
关键词：obesity; animalization; dehumanization; obesity stereotyping; implicit association test
