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The impact of experience on decisions based on pre-choice samples and the face-or-cue hypothesis

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Erev, Ido, Yakobi, Ofir, Ashby, Nathaniel J. S. and Chater, Nick (2022) The impact of experience on decisions based on pre-choice samples and the face-or-cue hypothesis. Theory and Decision, 92 . pp. 583-598. doi:10.1007/s11238-021-09856-7 ISSN 0040-5833.

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Abstract

The growing literature on how people learn to make decisions based on experience focuses on two types of paradigms. In one paradigm, people are faced with a choice, and must retrospectively consult past experience of similar choices to decide what to do. In the other paradigm, people are faced with a choice, and then have the opportunity prospectively to gather new experiences that might help them make that choice. The current paper examines the joint impact of both retrospective and prospective experiences. Two experiments reveal strong interactions. In Study 1, repeated experience with new samples appears to reduce sensitivity to the average outcome in the samples and enhances underweighting of rare events. Study 2 shows that repeated experience with pre-choice samples can reverse the impact of the new information (and decrease the tendency to select the alternative that provides the best outcome in the new sample). The results suggest that prospectively gathering new samples can have two, potentially contrasting, influences on choice: the first focuses on the sample’s face value and selects the option with the higher value in the new sample; by contrast, the second treats the new sample as a cue to recall similar prior experiences, which in turn drive choice. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possibility that part of the descriptive value of prospect theory reflects the fact that it summarizes the joint impact of similar “face-or-cue” processes.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Decision making , Choice (Psychology), Social choice , Public opinion , Human behavior, Reasoning (Psychology)
Journal or Publication Title: Theory and Decision
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
ISSN: 0040-5833
Official Date: April 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
April 2022Published
15 January 2022Available
21 November 2021Accepted
Volume: 92
Page Range: pp. 583-598
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-021-09856-7
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 21 March 2022
Date of first compliant Open Access: 15 January 2023
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
535/17Israel Science Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003977
FellowshipTechnion-Israel Institute of Technologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006260
295917-RATIONALITYEuropean Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000781
ES/K002201/1[ESRC] Economic and Social Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
RP2012-V-022Leverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
EP/K039830/1Research Councils UKhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000690

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