The impact of information from similar or different advisors on judgment

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 287-302

  Gino, Francesca ^a   Shang, Jen ^b   Croson, Rachel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Political and Policy Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Advice taking; Difficulty; Informativeness; Judgment; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649105533     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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