Unstuck from the concrete: Carryover effects of abstract mindsets in intertemporal preferences

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-126

  Malkoc, Selin A ^a   Zauberman, Gal ^b   Bettman, James R ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Discounting; Intertemporal preferences; Mindset abstraction; Present bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957123648     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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