Faking it: Personality and individual difference predictors of willingness to buy counterfeit goods

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 820-825

  Swami, Viren ^a,b   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^c   Furnham, Adrian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HELP UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counterfeit goods; Material values; Personality; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249104343     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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