Verbal denigration of personal body size and shape (“fat talk”) is correlated with, and can have a causal influence on body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. What is less clear is who is most likely to fat talk. To address this, Corning and Gondoli (2012) conducted a study confirming that a woman's body dissatisfaction directly predicted their fat talk. But this effect was scaled so that the likelihood of engaging in fat talk intensified if she had a stronger tendency to socially compare: the relationship was multiplicative. Here, we carried out two replications of Corning and Gondoli's (2012) study, the first with 189 UK participants and the second with 371 US participants. We found that multiple regression models predicting fat talk showed additive, but not multiplicative relationships. A robust Bayesian meta-analysis combining the results of our two studies with the results of the original study confirmed this. In conclusion, these studies show an additive relationship between fat talk and social comparison on fat talk.

对个人体型和体型的口头诋毁（“肥胖谈话”）与身体不满和饮食紊乱有关，并可能产生因果影响。不太清楚的是谁最有可能说粗话。为了解决这个问题，Corning 和 Gondoli (2012) 进行了一项研究，证实女性对身体的不满直接预测了她们的肥胖谈话。但是这种影响是经过调整的，因此如果她有更强的社会比较倾向，那么谈论粗话的可能性就会增加：这种关系是乘法的。在这里，我们对 Corning 和 Gondoli (2012) 的研究进行了两次复制，第一次有 189 名英国参与者，第二次有 371 名美国参与者。我们发现预测肥胖谈话的多元回归模型显示出加法关系，而不是乘法关系。一项强大的贝叶斯荟萃分析将我们的两项研究的结果与原始研究的结果相结合，证实了这一点。总之，这些研究表明，肥胖谈话与肥胖谈话的社会比较之间存在累加关系。