“…Briefly, from an affordance management approach to social perception, people aim to manage the opportunities and threats afforded them by others. To accomplish this, people often rely on others' perceptible features (e.g., sex, facial expressions), which may be heuristically associated with those opportunities and threats (McArthur & Baron, 1983;Neuberg & Cottrell, 2008;Neuberg & Schaller, 2016;Neuberg et al, 2020). Because people's fat amounts and locations might provide some-albeit imperfect-diagnostic information (e.g., reproductive potential; Lassek & Gaulin, 2018a, 2018b, social perceivers might use this information, consciously or unconsciously, to infer targets' affordance implications and, consequently, value or devalue (i.e., stigmatize) them.…”