Delay and duration effects of time frames on personal savings estimates and behavior

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-152

  Tam, Leona ^a   Dholakia, Utpal M ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Duration; Future optimism; Personal savings; Resource slack; Temporal onstrual; Time frame

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651493377     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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