Extrinsic value orientation and affective forecasting: Overestimating the rewards, underestimating the costs

Journal of Personality

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-178

  Sheldon, Kennon M ^a   Gunz, Alexander ^a   Nichols, Charles P ^a   Ferguson, Yuna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; REWARD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REWARD; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 76149138866     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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