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Science 5 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5774, pp. 704 - 706
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128388
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Perspectives

SOCIAL SCIENCE:
The Pleasures and Pains of Information

George Loewenstein

Information serves not only as an input into decision-making, but is a source of pleasure and pain in its own right. This has diverse consequences for human decision-making.

The author is in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. E-mail: gl20{at}andrew.cmu.edu

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