Retracted: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status
Journal of Consumer ResearchPublished 17 August 2011
David Dubois, Derek D. Rucker, Adam D. Galinsky
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This article has been retracted. Please see this notice for details: https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucad055
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