Not everybody likes the thin and despises the fat: One's weight matters in the Au tomatic activation of weight-related social evaluations

Social Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-221

  Degner, Juliane ^a,b   Wentura, Dirk ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 65449143309     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2009.27.2.202     Document Type: Article

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