Choice Deferral in Trade-off Decisions

The ability to make decisions is essential to our everyday life. We are what we decide. However, in real life, we may put off making decisions (i.e., decision deferral), which could have serious consequences. For example, regarding medical decisions, if we keep on putting off making decisions, it might have negative consequences on our health. The present study explored various factors that correlated with choice deferral. Using MouselabWEB to trace how participants' process information, our findings revealed that different processing strategies combined with different processing time correlated with the likelihood of using choice deferral.

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Xiaodong Ma, Ph.D.received her doctorate in Psychology from Bowling Green State University and is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Houston-Clear Lake. Yiwei Chen, Ph.D. received her doctorate from Georgia Institute of Technology and is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University.