The effects of social comparison on inaction inertia

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-185

  Kumar, Piyush ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision avoidance; Decision making; Inaction inertia; Regret; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 8144227012     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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