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Regret Aversion In Reason-Based Choice, Terry Connolly, Jochen Reb
Regret Aversion In Reason-Based Choice, Terry Connolly, Jochen Reb
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
This research examines the moderating role of regret aversion in reason-based choice. Earlier research has shown that regret aversion and reason-based choice effects are linked through a common emphasis on decision justification, and that a simple manipulation of regret salience can eliminate the decoy effect, a well-known reason-based choice effect. We show here that the effect of regret salience varies in theory-relevant ways from one reason-based choice effect to another. For effects such as the select/reject and decoy effect, both of which were independently judged to be unreasonable bases for deciding, regret salience eliminated the effect. For the most-important attribute …