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A person with a high-fat-to-muscle ratio will metabolize ______ than a person of the same weight with a lower fat-to-muscle ratio.
Stereotypes
Widely held but fixed and oversimplified images or ideas of a particular type of person or thing, which often do not reflect reality.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Expectations about a situation or person that lead to behaviors which cause the expectation to come true.
Cognitive Dissonance
A psychological concept describing the discomfort felt when holding conflicting cognition, beliefs, or values, prompting individuals to seek consistency.
Festinger
Leon Festinger was a social psychologist known for the theory of cognitive dissonance, which describes the discomfort felt when holding conflicting beliefs or values.
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