Facial reactions reveal that slim is good but fat is not bad: Implicit and explicit measures of body-size bias

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 688-694

  Roddy, Sarah ^a   Stewart, Ian ^a   Barnes Holmes, Dermot ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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EID: 80052926069     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.839     Document Type: Article

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