Reacting to perceived high- and low-risk win-lose opportunities in a risky decision-making task: Is it framing or affect or both?

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-98

  Nygren, Thomas E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032376277     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023096709380     Document Type: Article

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