Receiving advice on matters of taste: Similarity, majority influence, and taste discrimination

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-120

  Yaniv, Ilan ^a   Choshen Hillel, Shoham ^a   Milyavsky, Maxim ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Advisors; Decision making; Majority influence; Opinions; Preferences; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952736106     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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