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5 - Evolution and Consumer Behavior

from Part I - Individual Consumer Decision Making and Behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

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Vladas Griskevicius  and
Kristina M. Durante
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Michael I. Norton ,
Derek D. Rucker  and
Cait Lamberton
Michael I. Norton
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Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Derek D. Rucker
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Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Cait Lamberton
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Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
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The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology , pp. 122 - 151
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