On the robustness of description and experience based decision tasks to social desirability

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-99

  Koritzky, Gilly ^a   Yechiam, Eldad ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; Individual differences; Personality; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449192707     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.660     Document Type: Article

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