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Leann Lipps Birch, Diane Wolfe Marlin, Julie Rotter, Eating as the "Means" Activity in a Contingency: Effects on Young Children's Food Preference, Child Development, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 431-439
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