Qian, J. and Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) Similarity-based sampling : testing a model of price psychophysics. In: CogSci 2005 : 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, 21-23 Jul 2005. Published in: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society pp. 1785-1790.

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Abstract

How is the perceived attractiveness of a price influenced by the context or sample within which it appears? Current models of price judgment are often based on psychophysical models of the contextual judgment of non-economic stimuli. These existing models accommodate a number of contextual effects, but do not allow for the possibility, motivated by independent psychophysical data, that the weighting of comparison items within a sample may vary with their similarity to the target. Here we address this issue by using results from two experiments to estimate the parameters of the GEMS (Generalized Exemplar Model of Sampling) model. In both Experiment 1, when prices are simultaneously presented, and in Experiment 2, when prices are presented sequentially, some evidence for similarity-based sampling is obtained.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Psychophysics, Similarity (Psychology)
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Publisher:	L. Erlbaum
Page Range:	pp. 1785-1790
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	CogSci 2005 : 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Stresa, Italy
Date(s) of Event:	21-23 Jul 2005
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/37177

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