The Connections Between Affect and Decision Making: Nine Resulting Phenomena

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 444-463

  Rottenstreich, Yuval ^a   Shu, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Calculation; Decision making; Experience; Prospect theory; Value function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889494817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470752937.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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