Modeling of food intake: a meta-analytic review

Social Influence

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 119-136

  Vartanian, Lenny R ^a   Spanos, Samantha ^a   Herman, C Peter ^b   Polivy, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

food intake; meta analysis; modeling; social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928432884     PISSN: 15534510     EISSN: 15534529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2015.1008037     Document Type: Article

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