Preference Judgments and Choice: Is the Prominence Effect Due to Information Integration or Information Evaluation?

In K. Borcherding, O. Larichev, & Messick, D. M, (Eds.), Contemporary issues in decision making. (1990). Amsterdam: North Holland

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Henry Montgomery

University of Gothenburg - Department of Psychology

Tommy Garling

University of Gothenburg

Erik Lindberg

Uppsala University

Marcus Selart

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Strategy and Management

Date Written: June 5, 1990

Abstract

Several studies have shown that preference is not necessarily synonymous with choice. In particular, the most preferred object from a set of objects presented in a non-choice context is not necessarily chosen when the same objects are options in a choice situation (Lichtenstein & Slovic, 1971, 1973; Tversky, Sattah, & Slovic, 1988) . Our research on the choice-preference discrepancy replicates these findings and thus bears some resemblance to the study by Tversky, Sattah, and Slovic (1988). Two competing explanations are tested.

Suggested Citation

Montgomery, Henry and Garling, Tommy and Lindberg, Erik and Selart, Marcus, Preference Judgments and Choice: Is the Prominence Effect Due to Information Integration or Information Evaluation? (June 5, 1990). In K. Borcherding, O. Larichev, & Messick, D. M, (Eds.), Contemporary issues in decision making. (1990). Amsterdam: North Holland, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2475809

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