Giving advice under uncertainty: What you do, what you should do, and what others think you do

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 667-683

  Hadar, Liat ^a   Fischer, Ilan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Advice giving; Decisions under uncertainty; Self other discrepancy; Two stage model

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849090641     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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