Regret aversion and decision process quality: Effects of regret salience on decision process carefulness

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-182

  Reb, Jochen ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anticipatory regret; Decision process; Decision process quality; Regret aversion; Regret salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749135487     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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