Who throws good money after bad? action vs. state orientation moderates the sunk cost fallacy

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-36

  van Putten, Marijke ^a   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^b   van Dijk, Eric ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action orientation; Individual differences; Sunk cost fallacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77449145848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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