You can't always get what you want: The motivational effect of need on risk-sensitive decision-making

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 605-611

  Mishra, Sandeep ^a   Lalumière, Martin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ecological rationality; Individual differences; Need; Personality; Risk; Risk sensitivity; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951622208     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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