Experiential Gifts Foster Stronger Social Relationships Than Material Gifts

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  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Consumer Research

• Publication date

  2016-12-05

• Fields of study

  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1093/JCR/UCW067
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