Dazed and confused by choice: How the temporal costs of choice freedom lead to undesirable outcomes

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-171

  Botti, Simona ^a   Hsee, Christopher K ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice benefits; Choice costs; Freedom of choice; Predictions; Time costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953027554     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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