Is choice a reliable predictor of choice? A comment on Sagarin and Skowronski

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 425-427

  Chen, M Keith ^a   Risen, Jane L ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive dissonance; Free choice paradigm; Mere choice effects; Preference construction; Revealed preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049083700     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.026     Document Type: Article

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