Do emotions improve or hinder the decision making process?

Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making?: A Hedgefoxian Perspective

Volumn 9781610445436, Issue , 2007, Pages 11-31

  Baumeister, Roy F ^a   Dewall, C Nathan ^b   Zhang, Liqing ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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