Psychobiological Processes in Social Evaluation

Participants will be guided through a 30-minute behavioural self-compassion intervention that seeks to mitigate their psychobiological responses to the subsequent weight stigma induction. The intervention is intended to induce a flexible self-compassionate mindset that will facilitate more adaptive psychological responding to stress and activate affiliative/self-soothing physiological systems that can dampen psychobiological stress reactivity. This acute self-compassion intervention will employ a multimodal, experiential approach that is regularly utilized in self-compassion training, drawing from approaches developed in Compassion-Focused Therapy and Mindful Self-Compassion.