Another look at why people are reluctant to exchange lottery tickets.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2007-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.93.1.12PMID 17605585
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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