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Based on only a list of supermarket purchases—cbic “upscale” products or generic brands—people make different judgments about other men's and women's character and responsibility, with heavier media consumers judging buyers of brand-name products as also possessing more personal uirtues.
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Baran et al. (1989) studied this question.
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