ReviewFrontiers in psychology2024
On the advantages and disadvantages of choice: future research directions in choice overload and its moderators.
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- A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France.Nature human behaviour · 2026Trial
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- Regret concerning treatment decisions in patients with primary or secondary brain tumors - a cross-sectional exploratory bicentric analysis.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2026Article
- Perceived busyness shapes assortment size preferences via distinct thinking styles.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Does quantity equal quality? Source of protein influences American dog owner purchasing decisions more than the quantity of protein in the absence of marketing claims.Journal of animal science · 2026Article
- Effects of Choice Set Sizes and Moderations of Anxiety and State Emotions on Mental Health Self-Care Uptake, Engagement, and User Experience: Experimental Study.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- The trap of a closed fist : Is democracy capable of preventing a global ecological catastrophe?EMBO reports · 2025Article
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- A phantom decoy shifts wild forager decisions in a natural environment.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Researchers investigating the psychological effects of choice have provided extensive empirical evidence that having choice comes with many advantages, including better performance, more motivation, and greater life satisfaction and disadvantages, such as avoidance of decisions and regret. When the decision task difficulty exceeds the natural cognitive resources of human mind, the possibility to choose becomes more a source of unhappiness and dissatisfaction than an opportunity for a greater well-being, a phenomenon referred to as choice overload. More recently, internal and external moderators that impact when choice overload occurs have been identified. This paper reviews seminal research on the advantages and disadvantages of choice and provides a systematic qualitative review of the research examining moderators of choice overload, laying out multiple critical paths forward for needed research in this area. We organize this literature review using two categories of moderators: the choice environment or context of the decision as well as the decision-maker characteristics.
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