Internal and Substantive Inconsistencies in Decision Making

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 360-378

  Hsee, Christopher K ^a   Zhang, Jiao ^a   Chen, Junsong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

Author keywords

Choice task; Dictionary; Evaluations; Hypothesis; Inconsistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889292828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470752937.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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