Sequential information preferences in uncertain decision making.
Abstract
= 6,709 adult participants from in-person and online pools), we demonstrate that a majority of people prefer to consider risks before rewards. This preference is associated with individual sensitivity to economic ambiguity, but not a general need for structure. We further show that self-selected sequences are useful not only for predicting information-seeking behavior in financial and marketplace contexts but also for predicting downstream behavior in terms of choice process and choice outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Fuzzy Systems and Optimization
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Experimental Psychology General
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Volume
- 155
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1768–1783
- Publication date
- 14 May 2026
- Language
- EN