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7 - Developmental Consumer Psychology

Children in the Twenty-First Century

from Part I - Individual Consumer Decision Making and Behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

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Lan Nguyen Chaplin  and
Paul M. Connell
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Michael I. Norton ,
Derek D. Rucker  and
Cait Lamberton
Michael I. Norton
Affiliation:
Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Derek D. Rucker
Affiliation:
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Cait Lamberton
Affiliation:
Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
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The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology , pp. 180 - 208
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