Temporal discounting of strategic issues: Bold forecasts for opportunities and threats

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-56

  Highhouse, Scott ^a   Mohammed, Susan ^b   Hoffman, Jody R ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0036101233     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15324834BASP2401_4     Document Type: Article

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