Overearning

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 852-859

  Hsee, Christopher K ^a   Zhang, Jiao ^b   Cai, Cindy F ^c   Zhang, Shirley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

decision making; earning cap; happiness; heuristics; medium maximization; overearning; overworking; subjective well being; workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878811939     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612464785     Document Type: Article

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