When not to accentuate the positive: Re-examining valence effects in attribute framing

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 95-109

  Freling, Traci H ^a   Vincent, Leslie H ^b   Henard, David H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal level theory; Framing effects; Message framing; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897786548     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.12.007     Document Type: Article

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