Choice Bracketing

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 19, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 171-197

  Rea, Daniel ^a   Loewenstein, George ^c   Rabin, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Decision framing; Procrastination; Risk attitude; Simultaneous and sequential choice addiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042878886     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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