Self-other decision making and loss aversion

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-150

  Polman, Evan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal level; Information seeking; Loss aversion; Omission bias; Power; Regulatory focus; Self other decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866626664     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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