Carmon, Ziv; Wertenbroch, Klaus; Zeelenberg, Marcel - In: Journal of Consumer Research 30 (2003) 1, pp. 15-29
Common sense suggests that consumers make more satisfying decisions as they consider their options more closely. Yet we argue that such close consideration can have undesirable consequences because it may induce attachment to the options--a sense of prefactual ownership of the choice options....