Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect
The recently proposed integrated coherence-based decisions and search model (iCodes) makes predictions for search behavior in multi-attribute decision tasks beyond those of classic decision-making heuristics. More precisely, it predicts the Attraction Search Effect that describes a tendency to searc...
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| description | The recently proposed integrated coherence-based decisions and search model (iCodes) makes predictions for search behavior in multi-attribute decision tasks beyond those of classic decision-making heuristics. More precisely, it predicts the Attraction Search Effect that describes a tendency to search for information for the option that is already attractive given the available evidence. To date, the Attraction Search Effect has been successfully tested using a hypothetical stock-market game that was highly stylized and specifically designed to be highly diagnostic. In three experiments, we tested whether the Attraction Search Effect generalizes to different semantic contexts, different cue-value patterns, and a different presentation format than the classic matrix format. Across all experiments, we find evidence for information-search behavior that matches iCodes’s information-search prediction. Therefore, our results corroborate not only the generalizability of the Attraction Search Effect in various contexts but also the inherent process assumptions of iCodes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-343903c4395841fd9498e6e1bb052f032023-09-03T09:45:48ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752019-07-011448851210.1017/S193029750000615XInformation search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effectSophie E. Scharf0Monika Wiegelmann1Arndt Bröder2School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, L13, 17, 68161 Mannheim, Germany Social Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, GermanySchool of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, GermanySchool of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, GermanyThe recently proposed integrated coherence-based decisions and search model (iCodes) makes predictions for search behavior in multi-attribute decision tasks beyond those of classic decision-making heuristics. More precisely, it predicts the Attraction Search Effect that describes a tendency to search for information for the option that is already attractive given the available evidence. To date, the Attraction Search Effect has been successfully tested using a hypothetical stock-market game that was highly stylized and specifically designed to be highly diagnostic. In three experiments, we tested whether the Attraction Search Effect generalizes to different semantic contexts, different cue-value patterns, and a different presentation format than the classic matrix format. Across all experiments, we find evidence for information-search behavior that matches iCodes’s information-search prediction. Therefore, our results corroborate not only the generalizability of the Attraction Search Effect in various contexts but also the inherent process assumptions of iCodes.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S193029750000615X/type/journal_articleattraction search effectinformation searchgeneralizability |
| spellingShingle | Sophie E. Scharf Monika Wiegelmann Arndt Bröder Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect Judgment and Decision Making attraction search effect information search generalizability |
| title | Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect |
| title_full | Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect |
| title_fullStr | Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect |
| title_short | Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect |
| title_sort | information search in everyday decisions the generalizability of the attraction search effect |
| topic | attraction search effect information search generalizability |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S193029750000615X/type/journal_article |
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