Garment sizes in perception of body size

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 96, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 875-882

  Fan, Jintu ^a   Newton, Edward ^a   Lau, Lilian ^a   Liu, Fu ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY IMAGE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; VISION;

ADULT; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY IMAGE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4243200354     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.96.3.875     Document Type: Article

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