Researchers

Part of our mission is to support the work of researchers investigating weight bias, weight stigma, and weight dissemination. Below, we provide relevant information on self-report measures that may be useful in studies assessing weight bias and weight stigma.

If you have additional questions about any of these resources or measures, feel free to contact us.

Please note that we do not provide permissions for use of measures – you must contact the author of the original measure to request permission.

 

Resources

Self-Report Measures of Weight Bias

There are several published reviews of self-report measures to assess weight bias. These provide relevant information for researchers considering what measures to use to study weight-biased attitudes.

Measuring Implicit Weight Bias

The Implicit Associations Test is a timed, word categorization task that can be useful both in research and educational/training presentations. The tests are designed to measure implicit attitudes toward socially stigmatized groups. A detailed description of the IAT can be found here. Many research publications have used this measure to study weight bias (for example, see Teachman & Brownell, 200).

If you would like to take the Weight Implicit Association Test, go to Project Implicit at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit. Register for the Project Implicit Social Attitudes tests, and click on Weight IAT.

If you have additional questions about measurement of weight bias, please contract us with your question, and we will do our best to help. Please note that we do not provide permissions for use of measures – you must contact the author of the original measure to request permission.

The following versions of the Weight IAT can be used to assess implicit weight biases: