Prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height
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Height discrimination (also known as heightism) is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height. In principle, it refers to the discriminatory treatment against individuals whose height is not within the normal acceptable range of height in a population. Various studies have shown it to be a cause of bullying, commonly manifested as unconscious microaggressions.[1][2]
Research indicates that people often use height as one factor to measure social status and fitness. Both the cognitive and the culturally-ingrained unconscious heuristic association between height and the mentioned traits has also been found to be stronger when assessing men than women.[3][4][5]
^Judge, A. T.; Cable, D. M. (2004). "The Effect of Physical Height on Workplace Success and Income: Preliminary Test of a Theoretical Model" (PDF). Journal of Applied Psychology. 89 (3): 428–441. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.89.3.428. PMID 15161403.
^Persico, Nicola; Postlewaite, Andrew; Silverman, Dan (2004). "The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy. 112 (5): 1019–53. doi:10.1086/422566. S2CID 158048477. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
^Blaker, Nancy M.; Rompa, Irene; Dessing, Inge H.; Vriend, Anne F.; Herschberg, Channah; van Vugt, Mark (2013). "The height leadership advantage in men and women: Testing evolutionary psychology predictions about the perceptions of tall leaders" (PDF). Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 16 (1): 17–27. doi:10.1177/1368430212437211. ISSN 1368-4302. S2CID 4592188.
^Stulp, Gert; Buunk, Abraham P.; Verhulst, Simon; Pollet, Thomas V. (2015-02-26). "Human Height Is Positively Related to Interpersonal Dominance in Dyadic Interactions". PLOS ONE. 10 (2): e0117860. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1017860S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117860. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4342156. PMID 25719490.
^Cheng, Joey T.; Tracy, Jessica L.; Anderson, Cameron (2014-09-09). The Psychology of Social Status. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4939-0867-7.
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