Satisfaction in choice as a function of the number of alternatives: When “goods satiate”

By Elena Reutskaja, Robin M. Hogarth. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Food Science, Social Psychology

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Choice overload: A conceptual review and meta-analysis (2015, methodology): “Research by Sela et al. (2009) examines the impact of product type—utilitarian or hedonic—on choice overload and selection.”
There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea: The Effects of Choice Overload and Reversibility on Online Daters’ Satisfaction With Selected Partners (2017, background): “…settings, such as selecting chocolates (Chernev, 2003), coffee (Mogilner, Rudnick, & Iyengar, 2008), pens (Shah & Wolford, 2007), and gift boxes (Reutskaja & Hogarth, 2009); supporting charities (Scheibehenne, Greifeneder, & Todd, 2009); and relying on movie recommendations (Bollen,…”
Overconfidence in Political Behavior (2015, background): “3For examples of choice avoidance in other contexts see Iyengar et al. (2004), Iyengar and Lepper (2000), Boatwright and Nunes (2001), Shah and Wolford (2007), Schwartz (2004), Choi et al. (2009), DellaVigna (2009), Reutskaja and Hogarth (2009), and Bertrand et al. (2010).”
Helpful Reviewers in TripAdvisor, an Online Travel Community (2011, background): “Thus, too much information increases cognitive costs such as anxiety about uncertain preferences, lack of expertise, and incorrect decision (Reutskaja & Hogarth, 2009).”
Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload (2010, unknown): “DOI: 10.1086/651235”
Using eye-tracking to trace a cognitive process: Gaze behavior during decision making in a natural environment (2013, methodology): “…of options affects choice quality, consumer satisfaction and experienced difficulty (e.g., Chernev, 2003; Iyengar & Lepper, 2000; Malhotra, 1982; Reutskaja & Hogarth, 2005; Shah & Wolford, 2007), and the structure and format of the decision environment influences consumer information…”
Search Dynamics in Consumer Choice under Time Pressure: An Eye-Tracking Study (2011, methodology): “The entire choice process was monitored with an eye tracker (Eye-tracker model: Tobii 1750, Tobii Technology, Sweden) that recorded the positioning of the eye gazes on the screen every 20 ms with an approximate resolution of 0.25 square inches.”
What Moderates the Too-Much-Choice Effect? (2009, background): “Large assortments, as compared to small ones, have been found to foster dissatisfaction, regret, disappointment, decreased motivation to make a choice, or decreased consumption rates, all of which are manifestations of what has been termed the too-much-choice effect, choice overload, or hyperchoice ”
Customer experience challenges: bringing together digital, physical and social realms (2018, background): “B2B customers may be faced with a multitude of bundles that encompass an overwhelming number of options and combinations, so that a non-expert encounters a “paradox of choice” – whereby a customer feels better during the bundle creation process but (objectively) ends up worse off (Reutskaja and Hoga”