"I read Playboy for the articles": Justifying and rationalizing questionable preferences

The Interplay of Truth and Deception: New Agendas in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 136-148

  Chance, Zoë ^a   Norton, Michael I ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84919509631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203887851     Document Type: Chapter

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