How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making

Abstract The decoy effect describes a bias in which people’s choices between two valuable options are swayed by a third, inferior, “decoy” option. Despite being documented in lab settings, relatively little work has investigated whether decoy effects occur “in the wild” where consumers face large, d...

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Main Authors: Sean Devine, James Goulding, John Harvey, Anya Skatova, A. Ross Otto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-08-01
Series:npj Science of Learning
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00341-2
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