How much choice is “good enough”?: Moderators of information and choice overload

Misuraca, Raffaella, Reutskaja, Elena, Fasolo, Barbara ORCID: 0000-0002-4643-5689 and Iyengar, Sheena (2020) How much choice is “good enough”?: Moderators of information and choice overload. In: Viale, Riccardo, (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality. Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 637 - 649. ISBN 9781138999381

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Previous research has shown that neither too much nor too little choice is optimal. Choice sets of an intermediate size offer more positive cognitive and emotional consequences to the decision maker than small and large choice sets. However, the ideal number of choices depends on many factors. This chapter describes the main factors that moderate the effect of choice overload and so determine how much choice is enough. Consistent with Herbert A. Simon’s analogy of a pair of scissors to describe his conception of bounded rationality, where one blade represents the individual cognitive characteristics of the decision maker and the other the structures of the environment, this chapter presents these factors, regrouping them into two main categories: contextual and individual variables.

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Bo...
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2022 09:21
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 18:05
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113570

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