Stereotypes about overweight students and their impact on grading among physical education teachers

Glock, Sabine; Schuchart, Claudia

doi:10.1007/s11218-021-09649-4

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“…While even small differences may contribute to perceptual biases and discrimination in person perception, leading to serious societal consequences (e.g. 48 , 49 ,), in reality, voice-based judgments are typically based on more than a single word, and co-occur with visual and olfactory cues 50 . Vocal signals also often involve affective information, particularly in the production of emotional speech and nonverbal vocalisations such as laughs, cries, and moans that play an important role in human communication 51 and were not included in our sample of voice stimuli.…”

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Comparing accuracy in voice-based assessments of biological speaker traits across speech types

Sorokowski,

Groyecka-Bernard,

Frackowiak

et al. 2023

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Nonverbal acoustic parameters of the human voice provide cues to a vocaliser’s sex, age, and body size that are relevant in human social and sexual communication, and also increasingly so for computer-based voice recognition and synthesis technologies. While studies have shown some capacity in human listeners to gauge these biological traits from unseen speakers, it remains unknown whether speech complexity improves accuracy. Here, in over 200 vocalisers and 1500 listeners of both sexes, we test whether voice-based assessments of sex, age, height and weight vary from isolated vowels and words, to sequences of vowels and words, to full sentences or paragraphs. We show that while listeners judge sex and especially age more accurately as speech complexity increases, accuracy remains high across speech types, even for a single vowel sound. In contrast, the actual heights and weights of vocalisers explain comparatively less variance in listener’s assessments of body size, which do not vary systematically by speech type. Our results thus show that while more complex speech can improve listeners’ biological assessments, the gain is ecologically small, as listeners already show an impressive capacity to gauge speaker traits from extremely short bouts of standardised speech, likely owing to within-speaker stability in underlying nonverbal vocal parameters such as voice pitch. We discuss the methodological, technological, and social implications of these results.

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Comparing accuracy in voice-based assessments of biological speaker traits across speech types

Sorokowski,

Groyecka-Bernard,

Frackowiak

et al. 2023

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The Role of Moral Disengagement, Self-Efficacy and Social-Anxiety in Secondary School Teachers’ Prejudice: A Person-Centered Approach

Bobba,

Yuksel,

D’Urso

2024

Sexuality & Culture

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Teachers play a crucial role in fostering inclusive school environments for students from diverse backgrounds. However, harboring prejudiced attitudes towards minority students can have adverse social and psychological effects on these individuals. This study investigates the ethnic and homophobic prejudice profiles of Italian secondary school teachers (N = 552, Mage = 46.15, 76.4% females) using a person-centered approach. It explores how these prejudice profiles predict moral disengagement mechanisms, self-efficacy, and social anxiety among teachers. Participants completed assessments on subtle and blatant ethnic prejudice, attitudes toward the representation of homosexuality, moral disengagement, self-efficacy in teaching, and social anxiety. Latent profile analysis identified three prejudice profiles among teachers: low, moderate, and high prejudice. The results, based on a structural equation model, revealed that teachers with high prejudice profiles were more likely to employ moral disengagement mechanisms and reported higher levels of social anxiety. The study underscores the significance of interventions and monitoring efforts tailored to educators, encompassing their social, moral, and individual dimensions.

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Inclusion of Individuals With Overweight/Obesity in Physical Activity Settings

Rukavina

2022

Kinesiology Review

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The deleterious effects of weight bias in physical activity spaces for children, adolescents, and adults are well documented. Different types of weight bias occur, and they interact at multiple levels within a person’s ecology, from the messaging of often unattainable sociocultural thin/muscular ideals and physical inequities (e.g., equipment not appropriate for body shapes and sizes) to interpersonal and public discriminatory comments. However, the most damaging is the internalization and application of negative weight-bias stereotypes by those with overweight and obesity to themselves. An imperative for social justice is now; there is great need to advocate for, provide support for, and design inclusive physical activity spaces to reduce weight bias so that all individuals feel welcome, accept their bodies, and are empowered to live a healthy, active lifestyle. To make this a reality, an interdisciplinary and preventive approach is needed to understand bias and how to minimize it in our spaces.

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Stereotypes about overweight students and their impact on grading among physical education teachers

Cited by 3 publications

References 64 publications

Comparing accuracy in voice-based assessments of biological speaker traits across speech types

Comparing accuracy in voice-based assessments of biological speaker traits across speech types

The Role of Moral Disengagement, Self-Efficacy and Social-Anxiety in Secondary School Teachers’ Prejudice: A Person-Centered Approach

Inclusion of Individuals With Overweight/Obesity in Physical Activity Settings

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