Gain/loss asymmetry and riskless choice: Loss aversion in choices among job finalists

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 225-233

  Highhouse, Scott ^a   Johnson, Michael A ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030497299     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1996.0101     Document Type: Article

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