The transience of constructed preferences

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Simon, Dan ^a,d   Krawczyk, Daniel C ^b   Bleicher, Airom ^c   Holyoak, Keith J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint satisfaction; Constructed preferences; Decision making; Decisional conflict; Regret; Time and decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849197896     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.575     Document Type: Article

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