Summary assessment of experiences: The whole is different from the sum of its parts

Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 323-349

  Ariely, Dan ^a   Carmon, Ziv ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

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