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Study finds weight bias affects female political candidate evaluations

January 29, 2010

UMKC psychology and political science professors’ research appears in journal Obesity According to a University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) study published in Obesity journal, weight gain does not just harm the careers of models and actors. According to “An Experimental Study of the Role of Weight Bias in Candidate Evaluation,” obese female political candidates are […]

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