When Thinking Beats Doing: The Role of Optimistic Expectations in Goal-Based Choice

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  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Consumer Research

• Publication date

  2007-12-01

• Fields of study

  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1086/520071
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