Honey they shrank the food! An integrative study of the impact of food granularity and its operationalization mode on consumption

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 75, Issue , 2017, Pages 210-220

  Roose, Gudrun ^a   Van Kerckhove, Anneleen ^a   Huyghe, Elke ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

(Un)restrained eating; Food granularity; Grouping; Partitioning; Self control conflict; Tempting foods

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008477844     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.07.019     Document Type: Article

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