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 and Trope, 2008) including an AUA would decrease the att...

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Main Authors: Yaacov Trope, Nira Liberman, Leah Borovoi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010-04-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/10/91129/jdm91129.pdf

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