Coping strategies and immune neglect in affective forecasting: Direct evidence and key moderators

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-96

  Hoerger, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting; Coping fallacy; Immune neglect; Impact bias; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856659296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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