The singularity effect of identified victims in separate and joint evaluations

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 106-116

  Kogut, Tehila ^a   Ritov, Ilana ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Identified victim effect; Preference reversals; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944377255     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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