Desirability or Feasibility: Self-Other Decision-Making Differences

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 144-155

  Lu, Jingyi ^a   Xie, Xiaofei ^a   Xu, Jingzhe ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bank Of China   (China)

Author keywords

construal level theory; decision process; desirability; feasibility; self other decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

DECISION MAKING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 84873444284     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167212470146     Document Type: Article

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