Faculty Scholarship - McDonough School of Business
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Individual decision-making
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Improving preference assessment: limiting the effect of context through pre-exposure to attribute levels
(Informs, 2006)This paper introduces a technique for improving preference assessment by reducing the influence of context on preferential choices. We propose that a decision maker who is exposed to relevant attribute levels will form ... -
Leader-driven primacy: using attribute order to affect consumer choice
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)Leader-driven primacy uses initial product information to install a targeted brand as the early leader in a choice between two brands. Biased evaluation of subsequent attributes builds support for the targeted brand, ... -
Generating Objectives: Can Decision Makers Articulate What They Want?
(Informs, 2008)Objectives have long been considered a basis for sound decision making. This research examines the ability of decision makers to generate self-relevant objectives for consequential decisions. In three empirical studies, ... -
Benefits Leader Reversion: How a Once-Preferred Product Recaptures Its Standing
(American Marketing Association, 2009)In general, consumers establish a preference for one product early in a decision process. When this preference does not include consideration of product prices, the currently preferred product is called the “benefits ...