There's something about obesity: Culture, contagion, rationality, and children's responses to drinks "created" by obese children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-74

  Klaczynski, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology theories; Contagion; Culture; Magical thinking; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CULTURE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 36048942664     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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