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The rhetoric of reaction, extended

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2022

Nick Chater Open the ORCID record for Nick Chater [Opens in a new window]  and
George Loewenstein
Nick Chater*
Affiliation:
Behavioural Science Group, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
George Loewenstein
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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*Corresponding author: Nick Chater, email: nick.chater@wbs.ac.uk
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Behavioural Public Policy , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 2023 , pp. 838 - 845
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