People are experience goods: Improving online dating with virtual dates

Journal of Interactive Marketing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-61

  Frost, Jeana H ^a   Chance, Zoë ^b   Norton, Michael I ^b   Ariely, Dan ^c  

^a PatientsLikeMecom ^*

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 51349088755     PISSN: 10949968     EISSN: 15206653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dir.20107     Document Type: Article

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