I was pleased a moment ago: How pleasure varies with background and foreground reference points

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-83

  Heyman, James ^a,d   Mellers, Barbara ^a   Tishcenko, Sergei ^b   Schwartz, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bank of America   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer choice; Counterfactuals; Emotions; Pleasure; Reference points

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843137433     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MOEM.0000027278.22201.68     Document Type: Review

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