Open AccessShared Norms and Their Explanation for the Social Clustering of Obesity
Author(s) -
Daniel J. Hruschka,
Alexandra Brewis,
Amber Wutich,
B. Morin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2010.300053
Subject(s) - obesity , body mass index , psychological intervention , psychology , cluster (spacecraft) , phoenix , social psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , endocrinology , metropolitan area , pathology , computer science , programming language
We aimed to test the hypothesized role of shared body size norms in the social contagion of body size and obesity.
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