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This paper was prepared while the second author was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences with grant support from the National Science Foundation, SBR-9022192. The second author also acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation, PYI-9157447. We thank Jonathon Brown, George Loewenstein, and Robert Sutton for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. We especially thank Dr. David Howell for his help in gathering the data for Study 1.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Terence Mitchell, Department of Management and Organization, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
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