Psychological construal of economic behavior

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 762-776

  Leiser, David ^a   Azar, Ofer H ^a   Hadar, Liat ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3040; A12; Behavioral decision making; Behavioral economics; Construal level theory; D01; D14; D90; H55; Psychology and economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849121232     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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