Contingent reliance on the affect heuristic as a function of regulatory focus

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 267-278

  Pham, Michel Tuan ^a   Avnet, Tamar ^b  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Affect heuristic; Decision making; Emotion; Feelings; Heuristics and biases; Judgment; Regulatory focus; Scope sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949086630     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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