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Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Choice Overload in the Digital Age: A Cognitive Ne — NSF Award to University of South Caro

Technological progress has expanded the diversity of choice options in many critical sectors, including healthcare, finance, and consumer markets. As a result, people are increasingly subjected to states of choice overload, which occur when an excess of options reduces choice satisfaction, increases choice deferment, a

Award titleDoctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Choice Overload in the Digital Age: A Cognitive Ne
Award ID2417704
AwardeeUniversity of South Carolina at Columbia
CityCOLUMBIA
StateSC
Amount obligated$29,949
Principal investigatorDouglas Wedell
ProgramDecision, Risk & Mgmt Sci
Start date08/15/2024
AbstractTechnological progress has expanded the diversity of choice options in many critical sectors, including healthcare, finance, and consumer markets. As a result, people are increasingly subjected to states of choice overload, which occur when an excess of options reduces choice satisfaction, increases choice deferment, and leads to potentially poorer decisions. This research seeks to provide a neural account of brain processing of decisions among choice sets of varying sizes and complexity. That i
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