The Price of Beauty: Differential Effects of Design Elements with and without Cost Implications in Nonprofit Donor Solicitations

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  2017

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  Journal of Consumer Research

• Publication date

  2017-12-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1093/JCR/UCX059
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