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A Writing Intervention for Negative Body Image

Pennebaker Fails to Surpass the Placebo

Jayme L. Earnhardt MA Piedmont Treatment Center, 3000H High Glen Drive, Charlotte, NC, 28269, USA
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Denise M. Martz PhD Department of Psychology, Appalachian State University, USA
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Mary E. Ballard PhD Department of Psychology, Appalachian State University, USA
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Lisa Curtin PhD Department of Psychology, Appalachian State University, USA
Pages 19-35 | Received 09 Feb 2001, Accepted 13 Jun 2001, Published online: 22 Sep 2008

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