The effect of safe experience on a warnings' impact: Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-142

  Barron, Greg ^a   Leider, Stephen ^a   Stack, Jennifer ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Harvard Department of Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Cisapride; Decision making; Description; Experience; RIAA; Sex education; Vioxx; Warnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 44249098721     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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