CONTEXT The rise in obesity in the United States may slow or even reverse the long-term trend of increasing life expectancy. Like many risk factors for disease, obesity results from behavior and shows a social gradient. Especially among women, obesity is more common among lower-income individuals, those with less education, and some ethnic/racial minorities. METHODS This article examines the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic created a unique climate for examining the links between stressful conditions and couples’ relationship well-being. According to theories of stress spillover, stressors originating outside relationship, such as work financial uncertainty, often undermine quality. However, if individuals can easily attribute their problems circumstances, may be more resilient. Given salienc...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential impact U.S. government official’s comments regarding source COVID-19 on individuals’ perceptions and tendencies blame Asian victims hate crimes in Moreover, we examined how political conservatism beliefs about origin spreading participants’ victim blaming toward crimes. Participants (N = 100; 46 women, 54 men) were recruited via Amazon’...

There are many reasons why the gender imbalance in computing should be of concern to the profession. Over the last 20 years there have been many intervention programs which attempt to redress this situation and encourage more women into computing. To determine whether an intervention program has made a difference requires evaluation. Program evaluation is the careful collecting of information a...

Although countering denial, minimization, and externalization of blame is a key component of most interventions for individuals who have been abusive in their intimate relationships, these attributions have only seldom been the focus of empirical investigation. Using a sample of 139 male and female university students, this study examined the associations between self-reported minimizing and bl...

The current study examined school-level victimization as a moderator of associations between peer victimization and changes in 2 types of self-blaming attributions, characterological and behavioral, across the first year of middle school. These associations were tested in a large sample (N = 5,991) of ethnically diverse adolescents from fall to spring of the 6th-grade year across 26 schools. Co...

In two survey experiments, three types of gender-based mistreatment, social class and race the target, gender-linked stereotypes respectability (sexualization irresponsibility) were assessed in relation to victim blame attribution. U.S. participants (Study 1: N = 416; Study 2: 300) read a vignette about woman described as working- or middle-class, Black white, having experienced sexual assault,...

Previous investigations have noted that: (1) women have been noted to typically start most of the marital conflict discussions in laboratories that use observational methods, (2) the way conflict discussions start is also critical in predicting both their outcome and the longitudinal course of marriages, and (3) in distressed marriages there is a wife-demand/husband-withdraw pattern. Coupled wi...

Blaming drivers for crashes remains popular. However it can let road authorities evade responsibility their contribution. A recent fatal crash is reviewed. While media reports focused on the supposed failures of one drivers, an assessment on-site conditions points to contribution erroneous signing and a misleading layout. These are matters wholly within authority’s could easily have been rectif...