Consuming now or later?: The interactive effect of timing and attribute alignability

Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 411-417

  Malkoc, Selin A ^a   Zauberman, Gal ^a   Ulu, Canan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 19844368053     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01549.x     Document Type: Article

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