The relationship of antifat attitudes to other prejudicial and gender-related attitudes

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 683-697

  Perez Lopez, Mark S ^b   Lewis, Robin J ^a   Cash, Thomas F ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035315105     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb01408.x     Document Type: Article

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