The Notion That Girls and Women Must Be Thin to Be

question 176

Multiple Choice

The notion that girls and women must be thin to be considered attractive is called

• A)the thin ideal.
• B)the attraction hypothesis.
• C)the desensitization hypothesis.
• D)the mean-world belief.

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