Path dependent preferences: The role of early experience and biased search in preference development

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 215-229

  Hoeffler, Steve ^a   Ariely, Dan ^b   West, Pat ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Preference learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750742002     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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