Weight ratings of others: The effects of multiple target and rater features

Body Image

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-155

  Yanover, Tovah ^a   Thompson, J Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Weight perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649338852     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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