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Decision Making

Decision Making

Decision-making is a fundamental cognitive process that involves evaluating alternatives and selecting among them. This process can range from simple choices, such as deciding what to wear, to complex decisions, like choosing a major in college or a career path. The complexity of the decision often dictates the approach we use, which can be broadly categorized into two types: automatic and controlled decision-making.
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Modeling Eye Movements During Decision Making: A Review.

Michel Wedel¹, Rik Pieters^2,3, Ralf van der Lans⁴

¹Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD , 20742-1815, USA. mwedel@umd.edu.

|July 19, 2022

Summary

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This review explores how modeling eye movements during decision-making reveals cognitive processes. Advances in psychometric and econometric approaches offer new insights into search and choice behaviors.

Keywords:

choice decision making eye movements hidden Markov model search task switching

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Decision Science
Psychometrics
Econometrics

Background:

Eye movements provide a unique window into unobserved perceptual, cognitive, and evaluative processes during decision-making tasks.
Understanding these processes is crucial for explaining fundamental search and choice phenomena and predicting future decisions.
Existing research offers insights but lacks a unified framework for complex decision tasks.

Approach:

Proposes a theoretical framework integrating search and choice tasks with underlying cognitive processes.
Discusses how cognitive processes drive specific eye-movement patterns, emphasizing task and strategy switching.
Reviews recent advances in psychometric and econometric modeling of eye-movement behaviors.

Key Points:

Eye movements offer insights into decision-making not easily obtainable through other methods.
Task and strategy switching play a central role in complex goal attainment during decision tasks.
Modeling eye movements aids in explaining and predicting search and choice phenomena.

Conclusions:

Recent advances in psychometric and econometric modeling significantly enhance our understanding of decision-making.
The proposed framework integrates existing literature and highlights areas for future research.
Further psychometric modeling of eye movements is essential for advancing decision science.