Domain-specific rationality in human choices: Violations of utility axioms and social contexts

Cognition

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-63

  Wang, X T ^a  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHINA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030187405     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(95)00700-8     Document Type: Article

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