What Folklore Tells Us about Risk and Risk Taking: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of American, German, and Chinese Proverbs

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 170-186

  Weber, Elke U ^b   Hsee, Christopher K ^b   Sokolowska, Joanna ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001125776     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1998.2788     Document Type: Article

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