Cash, money, woes: The match between a person's level of materialism and the materialistic (or non-materialistic) character of events alters affective forecasts

North American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 647-664

  Hartnett, Jessica ^a   Skowronski, John J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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