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Title: How have psychological theories explaining obesity stood the test of time? Post by: colleen on May 8, 2012 How have psychological theories explaining obesity stood the test of time?
Title: Re: How have psychological theories explaining obesity stood the test of time? Post by: ThePsychic on May 9, 2012 At one time, being overweight was thought to be a sign of emotional disturbance.
The evidence, however, came mainly from self-reports and from flawed studies that lacked control groups or objective measures of how much people were actually eating. When researchers did controlled experiments, they learned that fat people, on average, are no more and no less emotionally disturbed than average weight people. |