Selective exposure and decision framing: The impact of gain and loss framing on confirmatory information search after decisions

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 312-320

  Fischer, Peter ^a   Jonas, Eva ^a   Frey, Dieter ^a   Kastenmüller, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision certainty; Decision making; Gain framing; Information search; Loss framing; Selective exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849139794     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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