The effects of attractive but unattainable alternatives on the attractiveness of near and distant future menus

We examine how adding an Attractive but Unattainable Alternative (AUA) to a set of available but less attractive alternatives influences evaluations of near vs. distant future sets of alternatives. According to Construal Level Theory (Liberman & Trope, 2008) including an AUA would decrease the a...

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Main Authors: Leah Borovoi, Nira Liberman, Yaacov Trope
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010-04-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500000954/type/journal_article