Imitation of snack food intake among normal-weight and overweight children

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Bevelander, Kirsten E ^a   Lichtwarck Aschoff, Anna ^a   Anschütz, Doeschka J ^a   Hermans, Roel C J ^a   Engels, Rutger C M E ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Eating behavior; Imitation; Mimicry; Overweight; Social modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891680395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00949     Document Type: Article

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