“…In particular, looking at overweight and obese individuals, one is normally exposed to variation in physical features such as skinfolds, flabbiness of fat tissue, curved forms, and skeletal muscles, as well as to body proportions that may be correlated with fatness such as relatively short and thick neck, relatively large head, apparently shorter legs, and a posture suggesting lack of balance; all aspects that, when not too extreme, could have both negative and positive emotional and motivational implications. That there is considerable room for positive appraisals is suggested by the frequently observed curvilinear relationships between judgements of attractiveness and BMI (Maisey, Vale, Cornelissen, & Tovée, 1999; Swami & Tovée, 2006; Tovée, Maisey, Emery, & Cornelissen, 1999) or facial adiposity (Coetzee, Perrett, & Stephen, 2009). The motivational relevance of different physical aspects could be overlooked, however, when only extremely obese exemplars are presented that appear severely deformed and handicapped due to their weight; schematic drawings, computer‐generated avatars, or body contours are used as stimuli; or research participants are merely asked to attribute different traits to the labels overweight or obese .…”