Can confederate characteristics limit modeling behaviour? Investigating the effects of normal- and overweight models on the eating behaviour of restrained and unrestrained eaters.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780494213971
Description: Individuals have been repeatedly found to match their intake to eating norms provided by experimental confederates. This study examined whether confederate weight could alter the extent to which individuals would adhere to such norms. Participants ate cookies after being exposed to video stimuli depicting normal- and overweight models eating either large or small amounts of food. As predicted, confederate intake significantly affected participants' eating behaviour. Participants were found to eat more or less cookies when the confederates ate either a lot or minimally. Evidence of consumption stereotypes was also found as confederate intake differentially affected participants' perceptions of the models. Contrary to predictions, however, confederate weight had no effect on participants' intake but only influenced how the models were perceived. Neither confederate weight nor confederate intake was found to influence non-eating compliance.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1668.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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