1 Introduction
2 Theoretical background
2.1 Deciding for or against a single product
2.2 Making decisions when a decoy option is added to a choice set
2.3 Making decisions when attributes or attribute levels change
2.4 Influencing decisions by past choice sets
3 Methodology
4 Results
4.1 Descriptive statistics and publication years
4.2 Article analysis
Article (Total number of citations) | Article (Number of citations per year) |
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Huber et al. 1982 (1084) | Simonson 1989 (30.54) |
Simonson 1989 (1069) | Simonson and Tversky 1992 (29.09) |
Simonson and Tversky 1992 (931) | Bordalo et al. 2013 (28.55) |
Tversky and Simonson 1993 (696) | Huber et al. 1982 (25.81) |
Roe et al. 2001 (545) | Roe et al. 2001 (23.70) |
Dhar and Simonson 2003 (381) | Tversky and Simonson 1993 (22.45) |
Shafir 1993 (379) | Novemsky et al. 2007 (20.94) |
Novemsky et al. 2007 (356) | Busemeyer et al. 2019 (18.40) |
Simonson and Nowlis 2000 (344) | Dhar and Simonson 2003 (18.14) |
Bordalo et al. 2013 (314) | Trueblood et al. 2014 (15.80) |
Usher and McClelland 2004 (284) | Simonson and Nowlis 2000 (14.33) |
Briley et al. 2000 (276) | Usher and McClelland 2004 (14.20) |
Huber and Puto 1983 (255) | Trueblood et al. 2013 (13.91) |
Pocheptsova et al. 2009 (196) | Geyskens et al. 2010 (13.79) |
Geyskens et al. 2010 (193) | Pocheptsova et al. 2009 (13.07) |
4.3 Author analysis
Author’s total number of articles | Author’s total number of citations | Author’s average number of citations per article |
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Simonson, Itamar (16) | Simonson, Itamar (4,277) | Roe, Robert M. (545) |
Kim, Jungkeun (11) | Tversky, Amos (1,690) | Puto, Christopher (472) |
Chuang, Shih-Chieh (10) | Huber, Joel (1,499) | Tversky, Amos (422.5) |
Dhar, Ravi (10) | Puto, Christopher (1,416) | Payne, John W. (390) |
Trueblood, Jennifer S. (9) | Dhar, Ravi (1,337) | Shafir, Eldar (379) |
Vogt, Bodo (8) | Payne, John W. (1,170) | Huber, Joel (374.75) |
Cheng, Yin-Hui (7) | Busemeyer, Jerome R. (803) | Novemsky, Nahan (356) |
Rieskamp, Jörg (7) | Nowlis, Stephen M. (608) | Schwarz, Norbert (356) |
Mueller, Holger (6) | Townsend, James T. (558) | McClelland, Jams (284) |
Tsetsos, Konstantinos (6) | Usher, Marius (547) | Townsend, James T. (279) |
Catalado, Andrea M. (5) | Roe, Robert M. (545) | Briley, Donnel A. (276) |
Chater, Nick (5) | Trueblood, Jennifer S. (428) | Morris, Michael W. (276) |
Chen, Xiujuan (5) | Pettibone, Jonathan C. (385) | Simonson, Itamar (267.31) |
Cohen, Andrew L. (5) | Baumeister, Roy F. (384) | Busemeyer, Jerome R. (200.75) |
Pettibone, Jonathan C. (5) | Shafir, Eldar (379) | Pocheptsova, Anastasiya (196) |
Spektor, Mikhail S. (5) | ||
Usher, Marius (5) |
4.4 Journal analysis
Journal’s total number of articles and impact factor | Journal’s total number of citations and impact factor | Journal’s average number of citations per article and impact factor |
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Journal of Consumer Research (30, 8.612) | Journal of Consumer Research (4,601, 8.612) | Memory and Cognition (213, 2.482) |
Journal of Marketing Research (27, 6.664) | Journal of Marketing Research (3,262, 6.664) | Journal of Political Economy (169.5, 9.637) |
Marketing Letters (18, 3.426) | Psychological Review (1,419, 8.246) | Journal of Consumer Research (153.37, 8.612) |
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (16, 2.508) | Management Science (815, 6.172) | Journal of Marketing Research (120.81, 6.664) |
Journal of Consumer Psychology (14, 4.551) | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (633, 5.606) | Psychological Review (118.25, 8.246) |
Psychological Review (12, 8.246) | Journal of Consumer Psychology (566, 4.551) | Management Science (90.56, 6.172) |
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (11, 4.941) | Memory and Cognition (426, 2.482) | Basic and Applied Social Psychology (85, 1.518) |
Judgment and Decision Making (11, 2.500) | Psychological Science (411, 10.172) | American Economic Review (85, 11.490) |
Psychology and Marketing (10, 5.507) | Marketing Letters (392, 3.426) | Psychological Science (82.2, 10.172) |
Management Science (9, 6.172) | Journal of Political Economy (339, 9.637) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (81, 12.779) |
Cognition (9, 4.011) | Psychology and Marketing (300, 5.507) | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (57.55, 5.606) |
Frontiers in Psychology (9, 4.232) | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (241, 2.508) | Journal of Retailing (55.5, 11.190) |
Journal of Business Research (8, 10.969) | American Economic Review (170, 11.490) | Social Cognition (55, 1.636) |
Marketing Science (6, 5.411) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (162, 12.779) | Theoretical Economics (53, 1.671) |
Journal of Economic Psychology (6, 3.000) | Marketing Science (142, 5.411) | Trends in Cognitive Sciences (52.5, 24.482) |
4.5 Analysis at the level of context effects
Effect (nodes) | n (papers) | Degree centrality | Betweenness centrality |
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Attraction effect | 256 | 143 | 12.17 |
Compromise effect | 180 | 128 | 5.17 |
Phantom effect | 27 | 32 | 0.67 |
Background contrast effect | 10 | 14 | 0 |
Repulsion effect | 10 | 14 | 0 |
Enriched/impoverished option | 10 | 7 | 0 |
Common feature effect | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Polarization effect | 5 | 12 | 0 |
Zero-comparison effect | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Lone alternative effect | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Common attribute effect | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Display set effect | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Abrupt disparity effect | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Jilting effect | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Single option aversion | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Upscaling effect | 1 | 0 | 0 |
4.6 Keyword and topic analysis
TC | Top 10 keywords | Trend |
---|---|---|
#1 | male human; female; adult; young adult; controlled study; middle-aged; adolescent; human experiment; task performance; normal human | ↑ † |
#2 | psychological model; statistics; psychological theory; bayesian methods; review; multialternative decision field theory model; theoretical model; reaction time; psychology; statistical analysis | → |
#3 | consumer attitude; food preferences; portion size; calories; health food; costs; nutrition; follow up; consumer behavior; catering service | → |
#4 | contrast; reversals; riskless choice; similarity; density; weights; hypothesis; bounded rationality; models; phantom alternatives | ↓* |
#5 | attribute balance; extremeness aversion; real payments; country of origin; brand entry; displays; tryptophan depletion; serotonin; balance; extensions | → |
#6 | unique features; direction; common feature; choice process; distortion; equate to differentiate; cancellation; focus; brand choice; knowledge | → |
#7 | limited resources; context-dependent preferences; ego depletion; rationality; self control; dual system; choice construction; behavioral decision theory; constructed preferences; regret | ↓ † |
#8 | risk-taking; accountability; regulatory focus; reasons; justification; prevention; self; goals; distinction; promotion | ↓ † |
#9 | selection; robustness; de-biasing; performance information; pay; field experiment; experiment; cognitive biases; travel behavior; numbers | ↑* |
#10 | robustness; reason-based choice; rational choice; revealed preference; individual decision making; incomplete preferences; weak axiom; experimental economics; risky choice; violations | ↑** |
#11 | multialternative decision; similarity effect; eye tracking; visual fixations; evidence accumulation; multialternative decision field theory model; computational models; preferential choice; psychological model; multialternative choice | ↑ † |
#12 | revealed preference; incomplete preferences; sales; theorem; random choice; rational choice; sets; stochastic choice; product line; integer programming | ↑* |
#13 | out of stock; reward-based crowdfunding; early bird offers; scarcity; uniqueness; need; psychological reactance; phantom alternatives; involvement; promotion | → |