On the psychology of loss aversion: Possession, valence, and reversals of the endowment effect

Journal of Consumer Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 369-376

  Brenner, Lyle ^a   Rottenstreich, Yuval ^b   Sood, Sanjay ^c   Bilgin, Baler ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 35348860058     PISSN: 00935301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518545     Document Type: Article

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