A meta-analysis of extremeness aversion

Journal of Consumer Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 193-212

  Neumann, Nico ^a   Böckenholt, Ulf ^b   Sinha, Ashish ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compromise effect; Context effects; Extremeness aversion; Methodology; Multilevel modeling; Multivariate meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960476007     PISSN: 10577408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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