Is comfort food really good for the soul? A replication of Troisi and Gabriel's (2011) Study 2

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Ong, Lay See ^a   IJzerman, Hans ^b   Leung, Angela K Y ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comfort food; Embodied cognition; Loneliness; Replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930679300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00314     Document Type: Article

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