Social Psychological Models of Food Choice

The Psychology of Food Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 41-57

  Conner, Mark ^a   Armitage, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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