Why didn't I think of that? self-regulation through selective information processing

Journal of Marketing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 701-712

  Trudel, Remi ^a   Murray, Kyle B ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost; Information acquisition; Information processing; Information search; Pleasure; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052428099     PISSN: 00222437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jmkr.48.4.701     Document Type: Article

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