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Comparative judgments with missing information: a regression and process tracing analysis.

Christof Körner1, Heiner Gertzen, Clemens Bettinger

  • 1Universität Graz, Austria. christof.koerner@uni-graz.at

Acta Psychologica
|September 5, 2006
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Decision-makers weigh common information more than unique information, but only for medium-importance factors. This study explores how missing data influences choices and information processing during decision-making.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Decision Science
  • Behavioral Economics

Background:

  • Understanding how individuals make decisions with incomplete information is crucial in various fields.
  • Previous research has explored information weighting but often overlooks the impact of missing data and commensurability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the commensurability of information (common vs. unique dimensions) affects decision-making.
  • To analyze the role of information importance and missingness in information retrieval and processing during choices.
  • To propose a decision heuristic for scenarios involving missing information.

Main Methods:

  • Participants evaluated two scholarship applicants based on grades across different subjects (dimensions).
  • Information on some dimensions was missing (unique) for one applicant, while all information was present (common) for others.

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  • Regression analysis and information retrieval protocols were used to analyze decision weighting and processing.

    • Main Results:

    • Decision-makers assigned greater weight to common dimensions than unique dimensions, a 'commensurability effect'.
    • This effect was significant only for medium-importance dimensions, not high or low.
    • Information on more important or common dimensions was accessed earlier; participants inferred missing data on unique dimensions.

    Conclusions:

    • The commensurability of information influences decision-making, particularly for moderately important factors.
    • Decision heuristics adapt to missing information, involving earlier information access and inferential processes.
    • A framework for understanding decisions with incomplete data, considering information importance and commensurability, is proposed.