Idiosyncratic matching and choice: When less is more

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 168-183

  Liberman, Varda ^a   Ross, Lee ^b  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making heuristics; Goodness of fit; Idiosyncratic matching; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750715161     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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