When Choosing is Not Deciding: The Effect Of Perceived Responsibility on Satisfaction

By Simona Botti, Ann L. McGill. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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The Dark Side of Choice: When Choice Impairs Social Welfare (2006, background): “Delegating decision making could improve consumers’ subjective well-being by relieving them of the responsibility of unwanted decision consequences and subsequent regret (Botti and McGill 2006; Ordón̆ez and Connolly 2000; Zeelenberg, Van Dijk, and Manstead 2000). At the same time, because the act of”
Caring for the Commons: Using Psychological Ownership to Enhance Stewardship Behavior for Public Goods (2020, background): “Boyce et al. (1992) contend that valuation disparities are explained by an inability for individuals to replace the public goods with private goods (see also Hanemann 1991).”
Passing the buck: Delegating choices to others to avoid responsibility and blame (2016, background): “…2008), and if the choice outcomes turn out to be unappealing, choosing can leave people feeling more dissatisfied and regretful with the outcomes than if they never had the option to choose at all (Botti & Iyengar, 2004; Botti & McGill, 2006; Botti, Orfali, & Iyengar, 2009; Iyengar & Lepper, 2000).”
Consumer Participation in Cause-Related Marketing: An Examination of Effort Demands and Defensive Denial (2018, background): “2003), and increase perceptions of personal involvement or causality (Botti and McGill 2006, 2011). It is proposed that when consumers are given the option to choose the benefitting cause, their tolerance for effort demands increases. Robinson et al. (2012) examined choice in a CRM setting and propo”
The Conflicting Choices of Alternating Selves (2010, background): “…is also affected by how the choice was made, with satisfaction being influenced by the level of personal responsibility one felt for the choice (Botti & McGill, 2006), by whether the decision was made following prolonged conscious deliberation (Dijksterhuis & van Olden, 2006), by the number or…”