Distractor effects in decision making are related to the individual's style of integrating choice attributes.

ABSTRACT: Humans make irrational decisions in the presence of irrelevant distractor options. There is little consensus on whether decision making is facilitated or impaired by the presence of a highly rewarding distractor, or whether the distractor effect operates at the level of options' component attributes rather than at the level of their overall value. To reconcile different claims, we argue that it is important to consider the diversity of people's styles of decision making and whether choice attributes are combined in an additive or multiplicative way. Employing a multi-laboratory dataset investigating the same experimental paradigm, we demonstrated that people used a mix of both approaches and the extent to which approach was used varied across individuals. Critically, we identified that thi

SUBMITTER: Wong JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11421849 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature