Motivation and affective processing biases in risky decision making: A counter-regulation account

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-126

  Schwager, Susanne ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Counter regulation; Framing effect; Prospect theory; Query theory; Regulatory focus theory; Risk; Valence bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880324955     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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