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Short horizons and tempting situations: Lack of continuity to our future selves leads to unethical decision making and behavior
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- Authors
- Hershfield, H. E., Cohen, T. R., & Thompson, L.
- Venue
- Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 298-310
- ISSN
- 0749-5978 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2123780659
- Cited by
- 268
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 22.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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