Do government officials decide more rationally than the rest of us?

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1147-1152

  Bonniot Cabanac, Marie Claude ^a   Cabanac, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Displeasure; Government officials; Judges; Lawmakers; Pleasure; Politics; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957703851     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2010.38.8.1147     Document Type: Article

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