Choice blindness and preference change: You will like this paper better if you (Believe You) chose to read it!

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 281-289

  Johansson, Petter ^a,b   Hall, Lars ^a   Tärning, Betty ^a   Sikström, Sverker ^c   Chater, Nick ^d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY COGNITIVE SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice blindness; Decision making; Preference change; Preference change through choice; The free choice debate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902811906     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1807     Document Type: Article

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