Choosing with confidence: Self-efficacy and preferences for choice

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-180

  Reed, Andrew E ^a   Mikels, Joseph A ^b   Löckenhoff, Corinna E ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Consumer decisions; Decision making; Individual differences; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859328218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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