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Shai Danziger1, Jonathan Levav, Liora Avnaim-Pesso

  • 1Department of Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|April 13, 2011
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