Decision focus and consumer choice among assortments
PsycEXTRA DatasetPublished 1 January 2005
Alexander Chernev
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Abstract
which offer converging evidence that consumer choice among assortments is a function of decision focus such that larger assortments are relatively less preferred when the salience of the subsequent product-choice task is high rather than low.The theory motivating these findings, methodology, and data analyses are presented in more detail in the following sections.
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