Loss aversion and status quo label bias

Social Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-204

  Moshinsky, Avital ^a   Bar Hillel, Maya ^b  

^a National Institute for Testing and Evaluation Jerusalem   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 77950270358     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2010.28.2.191     Document Type: Article

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