Reducing the impact bias in judgments of post-decisional affect: Distraction or task interference?

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 287-296

  Sevdalis, Nick ^a   Harvey, Nigel ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Focalism; Impact bias; Regret; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350161680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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