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    The Executive Functions in Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of Neuropsychological Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies.Francesca Favieri, Giuseppe Forte & Maria Casagrande - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10:468098.
    Background The increasing incidence of people affected by overweight or obesity is a significant health problem. The knowledge of the factors which influences the inappropriate eating behaviours causing excessive body fat is an essential goal for the research. In fact, overweight and obesity are significant risk factors for many health diseases, such as cardiovascular problems, diabetes, etc. Recently, many studies have focused on the relationship between body weight and cognitive processes. Objectives This systematic review is aimed to investigate (...)
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    Learned Overweight Internal Model Can Be Activated to Maintain Equilibrium When Tactile Cues Are Uncertain: Evidence From Cortical and Behavioral Approaches.Olivia Lhomond, Benjamin Juan, Theo Fornerone, Marion Cossin, Dany Paleressompoulle, François Prince & Laurence Mouchnino - 2021 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15.
    Human adaptive behavior in sensorimotor control is aimed to increase the confidence in feedforward mechanisms when sensory afferents are uncertain. It is thought that these feedforward mechanisms rely on predictions from internal models. We investigate whether the brain uses an internal model of physical laws to help estimate body equilibrium when tactile inputs from the foot sole are depressed by carrying extra weight. As direct experimental evidence for such a model is limited, we used Judoka athletes thought to have built (...)
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    The Overweighted Integrity Problem: Conscience, Complicity, and Moral Standing.Kyle Fritz - 2025 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 29 (2):159-187.
    Most states in the United States have conscience laws protecting conscientious refusal to perform some medical service. Yet many state conscience laws protect providers from being even indirectly involved with some procedure they find objectionable, which can include not only referrals but also simply informing patients of medically indicated but morally contentious options. I argue that such policies are unjust, offering too much protection for integrity in the face of competing values and patient interests. In other words, these policies grant (...)
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    Overweight and obesity in rural girls from Poland: Changes between 1987 and 2001.Maria Chrzanowska, Teresa Łaska-Mierzejewska & Agnieszka Suder - 2013 - Journal of Biosocial Science 45 (2):217-229.
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    Targeting and tailoring an intervention for adolescents who are overweight.Kirsti Riiser, Knut Løndal, Yngvar Ommundsen, Nina Misvær & Sølvi Helseth - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (2):237-247.
    There are important ethical issues to be examined before launching any public health intervention, particularly when targeting vulnerable groups. The aim of this article is to identify and discuss ethical concerns that may arise when intervening for health behavior change among adolescents identified as overweight. These concerns originate from an intervention designed to capacitate adolescents to increase self-determined physical activity. Utilizing an ethical framework for prevention of overweight and obesity, we identified three ethical aspects as particularly significant: the (...)
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    Targeting and tailoring an intervention for adolescents who are overweight.K. Riiser, K. Londal, Y. Ommundsen, N. Misvaer & S. Helseth - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (2):237-247.
    There are important ethical issues to be examined before launching any public health intervention, particularly when targeting vulnerable groups. The aim of this article is to identify and discuss ethical concerns that may arise when intervening for health behavior change among adolescents identified as overweight. These concerns originate from an intervention designed to capacitate adolescents to increase self-determined physical activity. Utilizing an ethical framework for prevention of overweight and obesity, we identified three ethical aspects as particularly significant: the (...)
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    Decreased Postural Complexity in Overweight to Obese Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study.Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Michael Buchecker, Erich Müller, Thomas Stöggl & Jürgen Birklbauer - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.
    IntroductionAlthough a few studies suggest that young overweight to obese children and adolescents may have impaired postural control compared to young normal-weight peers, little information exists about how these two groups differ in the quality of the underlying balance strategies employed. Hence, the aim of the present study was a first comprehensive examination of the structural complexity of postural sways in these two cohorts during quiet bilateral standing.MethodsNineteen YO secondary school students were carefully matched to YN controls for age, (...)
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    Prevalence and trend of overweight and obesity among sardinian conscripts (italy) of 1969 and 1998.A. Loviselli, M. E. Ghiani, F. Velluzzi, I. S. Piras, L. Minerba, G. Vona & C. M. Calò - 2010 - Journal of Biosocial Science 42 (2):201-211.
    SummaryThis study evaluated the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the male Sardinian population, and verifies that it has increased over the last 30 years. Data were collected during 2003–2004 from military registers in the Archive of the Military District of Cagliari for the years 1969 and 1998. A total of 22,345 forms were analysed from all Sardinia. The conscripts were classified on the basis of their place of residence and socioeconomic status. The overall prevalence of overweight and (...)
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    Embodied empathy‐in‐action: overweight nurses’ experiences of their interactions with overweight patients.Kay Aranda & Debbie McGreevy - 2014 - Nursing Inquiry 21 (1):30-38.
    Obesity is now commonly recognised to be a significant public health issue worldwide with its increasing prevalence frequently described as a global epidemic. In the United Kingdom, primary care nurses are responsible for weight management through the provision of healthy eating advice and support with lifestyle change. However, nurses themselves are not immune to the persistent and pervasive global levels of weight gain. Drawing on a Gadamerian informed phenomenological study of female primary care nurses in England, this paper considers the (...)
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    To be an immigrant: A risk factor for developing overweight and obesity during childhood and adolescence?Sylvia Kirchengast & Edith Schober - 2006 - Journal of Biosocial Science 38 (5):695-705.
    Childhood overweight and obesity, especially among migrant children, are current health problems in several European countries. In the present study the prevalence of overweight and obesity among migrant children from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia was documented and compared with that of Austrian children in Vienna. Anthropometric data from 1786 children were collected at the ages of 6, 10 and 15 years. Body mass was estimated by means of the body mass index and percentile curves were used to (...)
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    Physical exercise in overweight to obese individuals induces metabolic- and neurotrophic-related structural brain plasticity.Karsten Mueller, Harald E. Möller, Annette Horstmann, Franziska Busse, Jöran Lepsien, Matthias Blüher, Michael Stumvoll, Arno Villringer & Burkhard Pleger - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
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    Mindless philosophers and overweight globs of grease : are droids capable of thought?Dan Burkett - 2015 - In Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker, The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 229–239.
    The mechanical occupants of the Star Wars galaxy exhibit many human‐like characteristics. In Star Wars, the interactions that occur between droids share many of the features that are common in human relationships. Droids occasionally provide us with a jarring glimpse of their true mechanical natures. This chapter examines why droid intelligence is so important for the denizens of the Star Wars galaxy. Truth is, the treatment of droids is very different from that of humans and other sentient creatures. Not only (...)
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    Allocating Scarce Medical Resources to the Overweight.Adrian Furnham, Niroosha Loganathan & Alastair McClelland - 2010 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 21 (4):346-356.
    BACKGROUND: A programmatic research effort investigated how lay people weigh information on hypothetical patients when making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce medical resources. This study is partly replicative and partly innovative, and looks particularly at whether overweight patients would be discriminated against in allocating resources. AIMS: This study aims to determine the importance given to specific patient characteristics when lay participants are asked to allocate scarce medical resources. SAMPLE: In all, 156 British adults (82 males, 73 females), aged (...)
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    A Study of Response Inhibition in Overweight/Obesity People Based on Event-Related Potential.Ze-Nan Liu, Jing-Yi Jiang, Tai-Sheng Cai & Dai-Lin Zhang - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    ObjectiveTo investigate the characteristics of response inhibition of overweight/obese people, using behavior experiments combine with neural electrophysiological technology and discussing the difference in impulse level between obesity/overweight and normal-weight people through EEG data, questionnaire, and behavior experiment.Method All participants completed the Go/Nogo task; meanwhile, behavior data and 64 channel EEG data were recorded. Participants completed the Stop-Signal task and behavior date was recorded.Results During Go/Nogo task, no significant differences were found in reaction time, omission errors of the Go (...)
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    The Relationship of Self-Presentation, Psychological Needs, and Exercise Dependence in College Students With Overweight.YiWen Liu, Hao Liu & ZhongQiang Liu - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
    Objectives: The objectives of the study were to explore the effect of self-presentation and psychological needs on exercise dependence and to provide an essential reference for preventing and inhibiting the production of exercise dependence in overweight college students. Methods: The freshmen in two comprehensive universities accepted physical fitness tests, filled out the scales of self-presentation, psychological needs, and exercise dependence after obtaining their consent. A sample of 747 overweight college students who have regular exercise was screened using the (...)
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    Associations of muscle-strengthening exercise with overweight, obesity, and depressive symptoms in adolescents: Findings from 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance system.Jizu Shi, Mingjun Gao, Xiao Xu, Xuyang Zhang & Jin Yan - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    BackgroundPrevious studies have focused on the opposite relation between muscle strength, obesity, and depression in adults. Moreover, the evidence has indicated that obesity and depression in adults might be significantly decreased with Muscle Strength Exercise albeit it might be insufficient. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the association between MSE, adiposity, and depression among United States adolescents.Materials and methodsThis cross-sectional study used the Youth Risk Behavioral Survey data. In YRBS, a cluster sample was used, and the investigation was divided (...)
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    Barriers to Behavior Change in Parents With Overweight or Obese Children: A Qualitative Interview Study.Katrin Ziser, Stefanie Decker, Felicitas Stuber, Anne Herschbach, Katrin Elisabeth Giel, Stephan Zipfel, Stefan Ehehalt & Florian Junne - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents are global problems of our time. Due to their authority and role modeling, parents play an essential part in the efficacy of prevention and intervention programs. This study assessed the barriers that parents of overweight/obese children face in preventive and interventional health care utilization. Sixteen parents were qualitatively interviewed. A content analysis was performed, and barriers to change were allocated to their stage of change according to the transtheoretical model. Among the (...)
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    The Influence of Physical Education on Self-Efficacy in Overweight Schoolgirls: A 12-Week Training Program.Francesca Latino, Stefania Cataldi, Valerio Bonavolontà, Roberto Carvutto, Michele De Candia & Francesco Fischetti - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    The purpose of this randomized controlled study was to investigate the impact of a 12-week physical education program on the self-efficacy of overweight schoolgirls. We randomly assigned 60 overweight schoolgirls to either an experimental moderate to vigorous aerobic exercise group or a control group that received non-specific regular PE lessons with activities chosen by the curricular teacher mainly focused on team games and sports skills that aimed to achieve general psycho-physical wellness. To assess the starting level of students (...)
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    Physical Fitness and Academic Performance in Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obese Schoolchild Handball Players in Qatar: A Pilot Study.Souhail Hermassi, Lawrence D. Hayes, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi & René Schwesig - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
    This study aimed to investigate the relationships between physical fitness and academic performance in youth handball players of different BMI classifications. Thirty-three male handball players were recruited from the Qatar handball first league and were assigned to their BMI age-adjusted groups. Measurements included anthropometric data and body fat percentage, and physical performance tests: agility T-half test; squat jump, and countermovement jump, 10 and 15 m sprint; medicine ball throw. Aerobic capacity was evaluated using the Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test level 1. (...)
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    Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Japan.Masao Yoshinaga, Tomoko Ichiki & Yoshiya Ito - 2011 - In Luis A. Moreno, Iris Pigeot & Wolfgang Ahrens, Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Prevalence and Etiology. Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 153--162.
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    Am I Overweight? A Longitudinal Study on Parental and Peers Weight-Related Perceptions on Dietary Behaviors and Weight Status Among Adolescents.Karolina Zarychta, Barbara Mullan & Aleksandra Luszczynska - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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    Potential psychological accounts for the relation between food insecurity and body overweight.Eyal Ert & Amir Heiman - 2017 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.
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    Skewness seeking: risk loving, optimism or overweighting of small probabilities?Thomas Åstebro, José Mata & Luís Santos-Pinto - 2015 - Theory and Decision 78 (2):189-208.
    In a controlled laboratory experiment we use one sample of college students and one of mature executives to investigate how positive skew influences risky choices. In reduced-form regressions we find that both students and executives make riskier choices when lotteries display positive skew. We estimate decision models to explore three explanations for skew seeking choices: risk-loving, optimism and likelihood insensitivity. We find no role for love for risk as neither students nor executives have convex utility. Both optimism and likelihood insensitivity (...)
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    Do highly body dissatisfied women exhibit attentional biases towards thin and overweight figures?Alford Ashley & Bowling Alison - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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    Walking Time Is Associated With Hippocampal Volume in Overweight and Obese Office Workers.Frida Bergman, Tove Matsson-Frost, Lars Jonasson, Elin Chorell, Ann Sörlin, Patrik Wennberg, Fredrik Öhberg, Mats Ryberg, James A. Levine, Tommy Olsson & Carl-Johan Boraxbekk - 2020 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14.
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    Fear of Being Laughed at in Children and Adolescents: Exploring the Importance of Overweight, Underweight, and Teasing.Carl-Walter Kohlmann, Heike Eschenbeck, Uwe Heim-Dreger, Michael Hock, Tracey Platt & Willibald Ruch - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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    Euripides, Troades 1050: was Helen overweight?David Kovacs - 1998 - Classical Quarterly 48 (02):553-556.
    Menelaus' question in 1050 has puzzled interpreters. Why would Euripides put a joke at the end of this scene? It is true that of all the scenes in this play, the Helen scene is the only one that could admit a joke without terrible discomfort. And there is already humour in it. Hecuba employs scornful laughter and an amusing reductio ad absurdum in her arguments against Helen. So a joke here is not as utterly ruinous as it would be, for (...)
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    Socioeconomic changes as covariates of overweight and obesity among tangkhul naga tribal women of manipur, north-east india.N. K. Mungreiphy & Satwanti Kapoor - 2010 - Journal of Biosocial Science 42 (3):289-305.
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    Retinal Morphometric Markers of Crystallized and Fluid Intelligence Among Adults With Overweight and Obesity.Alicia R. Jones, Connor M. Robbs, Caitlyn G. Edwards, Anne M. Walk, Sharon V. Thompson, Ginger E. Reeser, Hannah D. Holscher & Naiman A. Khan - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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    Super size Spain? A cross-sectional and quasi-cohort trend analysis of adult overweight and obesity in an accelerated transition country.Antonio D. Cámara & Jeroen J. A. Spijker - 2010 - Journal of Biosocial Science 42 (3):377-393.
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    Socioeconomic status, body mass index and prevalence of underweight and overweight among polish girls aged 7–18: A longitudinal study. [REVIEW]Iwona Wronka - 2013 - Journal of Biosocial Science 46 (4):1-13.
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    Impacts of coordinative training on normal weight and overweight/obese children’s attentional performance.Maria Chiara Gallotta, Gian Pietro Emerenziani, Sara Iazzoni, Marco Meucci, Carlo Baldari & Laura Guidetti - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
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    Secular trends in body composition and frequency of overweight and obesity in boys aged 3–18 from krakow, Poland, within the last 30 years (from 1983 to 2010). [REVIEW]Małgorzata Kowal, Łukasz Kryst, Jan Sobiecki & Agnieszka Woronkowicz - 2013 - Journal of Biosocial Science 45 (1):111-134.
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    Association of body mass index and its classifications with gray matter volume in individuals with a wide range of body mass index group: A whole-brain magnetic resonance imaging study.Shinsuke Hidese, Miho Ota, Junko Matsuo, Ikki Ishida, Yuuki Yokota, Kotaro Hattori, Yukihito Yomogida & Hiroshi Kunugi - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16:926804.
    AimTo examine the association of body mass index (BMI) [kg/m2] and its classifications (underweight [BMI < 18.5], normal [18.5 ≤ BMI < 25], overweight [25 ≤ BMI < 30], and obese [BMI ≥ 30]) with brain structure in individuals with a wide range of BMI group.Materials and methodsThe participants included 382 right-handed individuals (mean age: 46.9 ± 14.3 years, 142 men and 240 women). The intelligence quotient was assessed using the Japanese Adult Reading Test. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and diffusion (...)
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    Obesity, political responsibility, and the politics of needs.Kaja Tulatz - 2019 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (2):305-315.
    Since overweight and obesity have been framed as one of the main contemporary health challenges in industrialized countries, it has become a matter of public health efforts. While the belief that obese individuals are personally responsible for their body weight prevails in public opinion, evidence-based health science widely acknowledges that obesity is significantly influenced by socio-economic factors and thus that prevention requires structural changes. This constellation bears the chance of politicizing an issue formerly conceived of as private which really (...)
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    “My Goal Is to Lose 2.923 kg!”—Efficacy of Precise Versus Round Goals for Body Weight Reduction.Marie-Lena Frech, Malte Friese & David D. Loschelder - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    Overweight individuals often struggle to lose weight. While previous studies established goal setting as an effective strategy for weight loss, little is known about the effects of numeric goal precision. The present research investigated whether and how the precision of weight loss goals—the number of trailing zeros—impacts a goal’s effectiveness. In two preregistered, longitudinal experiments, we contrasted competing predictions as to whether precise or round goals are more effective compared to a waiting control condition. In Experiment 1, participants in (...)
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    Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender of the Italian version of the tempest self-regulation questionnaire for eating adapted for young adults.Pierluigi Diotaiuti, Laura Girelli, Stefania Mancone, Giuseppe Valente, Fernando Bellizzi, Francesco Misiti & Elisa Cavicchiolo - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    The prevalence of overweight and obesity in young adults has increased dramatically in recent decades. The unhealthy eating habits that develop at this time can often lead to negative health consequences in the future. It is therefore important to learn about self-regulation and self-control strategies and help young adults to have healthy eating behaviours. This study aims to present an Italian version of the Tempest Self-Regulation Questionnaire for Eating adapted for young adults. The instrument assesses self-regulation and self-control strategies (...)
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    Coping with weight stigma: Validation of the Persian brief coping responses inventory with Iranian adolescents sample.Leila Kargari Padar, Ali Asghar Asgharnejad Farid, Fahimeh Fathali Lavasani, Hojjatollah Farahani & Banafsheh Gharaei - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    Individuals who are overweight or obese encounter frequent weight-related stigma experiences, which are associated with negative health outcomes. In this regard, the Brief Coping Responses Inventory was developed as a measure of core coping responses to weight stigma, with 10 items loading on two subscales of reappraisal and Disengagement coping. The current study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Persian BCRI with 253 Iranian school-attending youth who had BMI score over 30. The results of the confirmatory factor (...)
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    Ethnic and gender consensus for the effect of waist-to-hip ratio on judgment of women’s attractiveness.Devendra Singh & Suwardi Luis - 1995 - Human Nature 6 (1):51-65.
    The western consensus is that obese women are considered attractive by Afro-Americans and by many societies from nonwestern developing countries. This belief rests mainly on results of nonstandardized surveys dealing only with body weight and size, ignoring body fat distribution. The anatomical distribution of female body fat as measured by the ratio of waist to hip circumference (WHR) is related to reproductive age, fertility, and risk for various major diseases and thus might play a role in judgment of attractiveness. Previous (...)
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    Patient, heal thyself: how the new medicine puts the patient in charge.Robert M. Veatch - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The puzzling case of the broken arm -- Hernias, diets, and drugs -- Why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients -- Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights -- Societal interests and duties to others -- The new, limited, twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants -- Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctor's "orders" and hospital "discharge" -- Medicine can't "indicate": so why do we talk that way? --"Treatments of choice" and "medical necessity": who is fooling whom? -- Abandoning informed (...)
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  41. The Myside Bias in Argument Evaluation: A Bayesian Model.Edoardo Baccini & Stephan Hartmann - 2022 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 44:1512-1518.
    The "myside bias'' in evaluating arguments is an empirically well-confirmed phenomenon that consists of overweighting arguments that endorse one's beliefs or attack alternative beliefs while underweighting arguments that attack one's beliefs or defend alternative beliefs. This paper makes two contributions: First, it proposes a probabilistic model that adequately captures three salient features of myside bias in argument evaluation. Second, it provides a Bayesian justification of this model, thus showing that myside bias has a rational Bayesian explanation under certain conditions.
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    Cognitive Science Is and Should Be Pluralistic.Dedre Gentner - 2019 - Topics in Cognitive Science 11 (4):884-891.
    Núñez et al (2019) argue (1) that the field of Cognitive Science has failed, in that it has not arrived at a cohesive theory, and (2) that this is contrary to the intentions of the founders. Their survey of publication and citation patterns bears out the lack of a cohesive theory and also provides corroboration for (3) the concern that the field is becoming unbalanced, with psychology overweighted (Gentner, 2010). I will argue against points (1) and (2), but agree with (...)
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    The Value of Character-Based Judgement in the Professional Domain.James Arthur, Stephen R. Earl, Aidan P. Thompson & Joseph W. Ward - 2019 - Journal of Business Ethics 169 (2):293-308.
    Dimensions of character are often overlooked in professional practice at the expense of the development of technical competence and operational efficiency. Drawing on philosophical accounts of virtue ethics and positive psychology, the present work attempts to elevate the role of ‘good’ character in the professional domain. A ‘good’ professional is ideally one that exemplifies dimensions of character informed by sound judgement. A total of 2340 professionals, from five discrete professions, were profiled based on their valuation of qualities pertaining to character (...)
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  44. Obesity, identity and community: Leveraging social networks for behavior change in public health.Norah Mulvaney-Day & Catherine A. Womack - 2009 - Public Health Ethics 2 (3):250-260.
    Obesity is a public health problem influenced by behavioral patterns that span an ecological spectrum of individual-level factors, social network factors and environmental factors. Both individual and environmental approaches necessarily include significant influences from social networks, but how and under what conditions social networks influence behavior change is often not clearly mapped out either in the obesity literature or in many intervention designs. In this paper, we provide an analysis of recent empirical work in obesity research that explicates social network (...)
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    Genomics, obesity and enhancement: moral issues regarding aesthetics and health.Maartje Schermer - 2008 - Genomics, Society and Policy 4 (2):1-17.
    Human enhancement is the term used for applications of biomedical knowledge that aim to improve human form or functioning beyond what is necessary to restore or sustain good health. Genomics is one of the research-areas that promises to offer such possibilities in the near future, and body weight - especially over-weight and obesity - is one of the human characteristics at which these will be directed. This paper offers an overview of some of the moral issues that the subject of (...)
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  46. Parental responsibility and obesity in children.Søren Holm - 2008 - Public Health Ethics 1 (1):21-29.
    Cardiff Law School, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK. Tel: +44(0)2920875447, Fax: +44(0)2920874097; Email: Holms{at}cardiff.ac.uk ' + u + '@' + d + ' '//--> Abstract The paper presents a brief overview of current knowledge about (i) the link between parental behaviour and lifestyle and childhood obesity, (ii) the many other factors influencing overweight and obesity rates in children and (iii) the effectiveness of interventions in children who are already overweight and obese. On the basis of this, it (...)
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    Does Calorie Restriction in Primates Increase Lifespan? Revisiting Studies on Macaques and Mouse Lemurs.Eric Le Bourg - 2018 - Bioessays 40 (10):1800111.
    The effects of calorie restriction have now been studied in two non‐human primates, the macaque Macaca mulatta and the mouse lemur Microcebus murinus. The study on lemurs and one of the two studies on macaques have reported a lifespan increase. In this review, I argue that these results are better explained by a lifespan decrease in the control group because of a bad diet and/or overfeeding, rather than by a real lifespan increase in calorie‐restricted animals. If these results can be (...)
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    Politieke beroepsethiek en politieke corruptie.Bertrand J. De Clercq - 1980 - Res Publica 22 (4):633-655.
    «Without a theory of corruption there cannot be a remedy for corruption unless by happy accident». There are empirical theories, such as the functional approach of the political process, but how useful they may be, they essentially fall short. One needs a normative, i.e. an ethical theory of political action.After having evaluated the idea, that politicians and rulers have the right to make use of violence, lies and ruses in order to combat violence and ruse within the community, the article (...)
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    Gender, Age, Hunger, and Body Mass Index as Factors Influencing Portion Size Estimation and Ideal Portion Sizes.Kalina Duszka, Markus Hechenberger, Irene Dolak, Deni Kobiljak & Jürgen König - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    Portion sizes of meals have been becoming progressively larger which contributes to the onset of obesity. So far, little research has been done on the influence of body weight on portion size preferences. Therefore, we assessed whether Body Mass Index, as well as other selected factors, contribute to the estimation of food portions weight and the subjective perception of portion sizes. Through online questionnaires, the participants were asked to estimate the weight of pictured foods in the first study. In the (...)
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    Types of Eating Disorder Prodrome in Adolescence: The Role of Decision Making in Childhood.Amy Harrison, Marta Francesconi & Eirini Flouri - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    Psychiatric disorders like eating disorders might be underpinned by differences in decision making. However, little previous research has investigated this potential relationship using longitudinal data. This study aimed to understand how components of decision making measured by the Cambridge Gambling Task in the United Kingdom’s Millennium Cohort Study at age 11 might explain clusters/types of ED prodrome involving body dissatisfaction, intention to lose weight, dietary restraint, excessive exercise and significant under/overweight measured in the MCS at age 14. Latent class (...)
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