American's desire for less wealth inequality does not depend on how you ask them

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 393-394

  Norton, Michael I ^a   Ariely, Dan ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Judgment elicitation; Wealth inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878454295     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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