The abstractness of luxury

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 789-796

  Hansen, Jochim ^a   Wänke, Michaela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstractness; Construal level theory; Language; Linguistic category model; Luxury

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052022468     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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