When is more better? On the relationship between magnitude and subjective value

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 234-237

  Hsee, Christopher K ^a   Rottenstreich, Yuval ^b   Xiao, Zhixing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

Author keywords

Affect; Evaluability; Magnitude; Scope neglect

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744434174     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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