Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 57, Issue 1 , Pages 73-78 , July 2004

A word-stem completion task to assess implicit processing of appearance-related information

  • Marika Tiggemann

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61-8-82012482; fax: +61-8-82013877
    • Flinders University of South Australia, School of Psychology, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
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  • Duane Hargreaves

      Affiliations

    • Flinders University of South Australia, School of Psychology, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
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  • Janet Polivy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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  • Traci McFarlane

      Affiliations

    • Ambulatory Care for Eating Disorders, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Received 24 December 2002 ,Accepted 10 September 2003.

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PII: S0022-3999(03)00565-8

doi: 10.1016/S0022-3999(03)00565-8

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 57, Issue 1 , Pages 73-78 , July 2004

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