Predicting and indulging changing preferences

Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 351-391

  Loewenstein, George ^a   Angner, Erik ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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