Maximizing without difficulty: A modified maximizing scale and its correlates

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 164-175

  Lai, Linda ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decision difficulty; Maximizing; Risk aversion; Satisficing; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954476809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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