Cognitive Processing About Classroom-Relevant Contexts: Teachers' Attention to and Utilization of Girls' Body Size, Ethnicity, Attractiveness, and Facial Affect

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 473-489

  Wang, Shirley S ^a   Treat, Teresa A ^a   Brownell, Kelly D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; attractiveness; education; ethnicity; obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449173171     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.2.473     Document Type: Article

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