Future lock-in: Future implementation increases selection of 'should' choices

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-20

  Rogers, Todd ^a   Bazerman, Max H ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal Level Theory; Decision making; Intertemporal choice; Multiple selves; Want should conflict; Wise policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949094195     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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