Seeing women as objects: The sexual body part recognition bias

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 743-753

  Gervais, Sarah J ^a   Vescio, Theresa K ^b   Förster, Jens ^c   Maass, Anne ^d   Suitner, Caterina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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EID: 84866532995     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1890     Document Type: Article

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