Date of Award
January 2015
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Psychological Sciences
First Advisor
Robert W Proctor
Committee Member 1
Richard Schweickert
Committee Member 2
Steven J Landry
Committee Member 3
Torsten O Reimer
Abstract
Procedure invariance is a basic assumption of rational theories of choice, however, it has been shown to be violated: Different response modes, or task frames, sometimes reveal opposite preferences. This study focused on selection and rejection task frames, involving a unique type of problem with enriched and impoverished options, which has led to conflicting findings and theoretical explanations. On the one hand, greater preference has been found for the enriched option in the selection task than in the rejection task; this result is explained by a compatibility account, in which the positive features of the enriched option are more compatible with the selection task and the negative features with the rejection task (Shafir, 1993). On the other hand, it has been found that this preference difference in the two tasks interacts with the relative attractiveness of the two options: The enriched option is preferred more (less) often in the selection task than in the rejection task when it is more (less) attractiveness than the impoverished option; this finding is attributed to the accentuation of difference between options in the selection task, as stated in the accentuation account (Wedell, 1997).
Recommended Citation
Chen, Jing, "SELECTION VERSUS REJECTION: THE ROLE OF TASK FRAMING IN DECISION MAKING" (2015). Open Access Dissertations. 1175.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1175