Taste for novelty and novel tastes: The role of human agency in consumption

The Active Consumer: Novelty and Surprise in Consumer Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 64-86

  Bianchi, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203022917-18     Document Type: Chapter

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