Is beauty best? Highly versus normally attractive models in advertising

Journal of Advertising

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 10-12

  Bower, Amanda B ^a,b   Landreth, Stacy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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