Decision speed and choice regret: When haste feels like waste

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 533-540

  Inbar, Yoel ^a   Botti, Simona ^b   Hanko, Karlene ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 79952816657     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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