Construal level theory of intertemporal judgment and decision

Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 245-276

  Liberman, Nira ^a   Trope, Yaacov ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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