Attitudes and evaluative practices: Category vs. item and subjective vs. objective constructions in everyday food assessments

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 513-531

  Wiggins, Sally ^a,b   Potter, Jonathan ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEVERAGE; EVALUATION; FAMILY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTITUDE; BEVERAGES; FAMILY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0347598152     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466603322595257     Document Type: Article

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