Habits and free associations: Free your mind but mind your habits

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 293-305

  Drolet, Aimee ^a   Bodapati, Anand V ^a   Suppes, Patrick ^b   Rossi, Benjamin ^c   Hochwarter, Harrison ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 85057828945     PISSN: 23781815     EISSN: 23781823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/695422     Document Type: Article

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