Health Risk Perceptions and Consumer Psychology

Handbook of Consumer Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 981-1010

  Menon, Geeta ^a   Raghubir, Priya ^b   Agrawal, Nidhi ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809570-51     Document Type: Chapter

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