Interesting Links for 20-06-2013

[andrewducker]

• Is the rape porn cultural harm argument another rape myth?
  (tags: pornography society rape )
• Exposure to high pollution levels during pregnancy may increase risk of having child with autism
  (tags: autism pollution )
• Beliefs about causes of obesity may impact weight, eating behavior
  (tags: weight beliefs food )
• Lothian Ridacard owners will get to

Comments

[steer]

Classic graph from the paper you link. They made participants read passages saying either:
A) Obesity caused by eating too much
B) Obesity caused by lack of exercise
While doing this they gave them some chocolates "left over from a previous experiment" and counted how many were eaten.

[nancylebov]

That's so much cheaper and easier than finding out something about how much people eat or how much they exercise or whether people's BMIs affect what they believe about obesity.

[steer]

To be clear that was just one of the many cool experiments they did. They also looked into what people's preexisting beliefs on obesity were and found what they state as their main result. People who believe it is diet have lower BMI than people who believe it is exercise.

I recommend reading the full paper... it's fun.