How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making
Abstract The decoy effect describes a bias in which people’s choices between two valuable options are swayed by a third, inferior, “decoy” option. Despite being documented in lab settings, relatively little work has investigated whether decoy effects occur “in the wild” where consumers face large, d...
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| Main Authors: | Sean Devine, James Goulding, John Harvey, Anya Skatova, A. Ross Otto |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2025-08-01
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| Series: | npj Science of Learning |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00341-2 |
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