title: Effects of Biggest Loser exercise depictions on exercise-related attitudes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine whether participants who watched an exercise-related segment of The Biggest Loser television program would have different explicit and implicit affective exercise-related attitudes than those of control participants.
  
  
  METHODS
  University students  (N=138) watched a clip of The Biggest Loser or American Idol, then completed a Go/No-go Association Task, a thought-listing task, and questionnaires measuring explicit attitudes, activity level, and mood.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants who watched The Biggest Loser had significantly lower explicit,  but not implicit, attitudes towards exercise than did control participants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need to examine the influence of popular media depictions of exercise.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. tanya.berry@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: Tanya R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: Nicole C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: McLeod
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pankratow
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D013690:Television