Aversive and avoidant indecisiveness: Roles for regret proneness, maximization, and BIS/BAS sensitivities

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 256-261

  Spunt, Robert P ^a   Rassin, Eric ^b   Epstein, Liana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BIS BAS; Decision making; Factor analysis; Indecisiveness; Maximization; Regret

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349266569     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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