Risky choice and affective forecasting: Loss aversion in two culturally different student samples

Studia Psychologica

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-342

  Bačová, Viera ^a   Jusková, Tatiana ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRE OV   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting; Cultural differences in decision making; Loss aversion; Risky choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549123275     PISSN: 00393320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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