t blow your diet on Twinkies: Choice processes when choice options conflict with incidental goals

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six experiments; when every option conflicts with a goal, consumers choose the option most instrumental for the choice-set goal even when it is the greatest violation, because it is the most justifiable.

six experiments; when every option conflicts with a goal, consumers choose the option most instrumental for the choice-set goal even when it is the greatest violation, because it is the most justifiable.

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doi:10.1086/700840. Abstract read: six experiments; when every option conflicts with a goal, consumers choose the option most instrumental for the choice-set goal even when it is the greatest violation, because it is the most justifiable.