Implicit relational assessment procedure and body-weight bias: Influence of gender of participants and targets

Psychological Record

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 467-488

  Nolan, Jason ^a   Murphy, Carol ^a   Barnes Holmes, Dermot ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Body weight bias; Implicit responding; Intelligence; IRAP; Relational frame theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880883479     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11133/j.tpr.2013.63.3.005     Document Type: Article

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