The Role of External Sources of Information in Children's Evaluative Food Categories

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 216-235

  Nguyen, Simone P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain of food; Evaluative categories; External sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857794155     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.745     Document Type: Article

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