Valuing Money and Things: Why a $20 Item Can Be Worth More and Less Than $20

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 816-830

  McGraw, A Peter ^a   Shafir, Eldar ^b   Todorov, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Choice; Judgment and decision making; Monetary gambles; Money; Preference reversals; Value

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EVALUATION PROCESS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; PREFERENCE REVERSALS; RISKY DECISIONS;

ELECTRIC ACCIDENTS; PROBABILITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77952494356     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1147     Document Type: Article

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