Do prosocial people prefer sweet-tasting foods? An attempted replication of Meier, Moeller, Riemer-Peltz, and Robinson (2012)

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-46

  Ashton, Michael C ^a   Pilkington, Alyssa C ^a   Lee, Kibeom ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altruism; Prosocial personality; Sweet food taste preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904861615     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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