Have your cake and hate it, too: Ambivalent food attitudes are associated with dietary restraint

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 343-360

  Urland, Geoffrey R ^a   Ito, Tiffany A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 33144463559     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp2704_8     Document Type: Review

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