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Integrating Cognitive Process and Descriptive Models of Attitudes and Preferences
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Hawkins, GE and Marley, AAJ and Heathcote, A and Flynn, TN and Louviere, JL and Brown, SD, Integrating Cognitive Process and Descriptive Models of Attitudes and Preferences, Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Psychology, 38 pp. 701-735. ISSN 0364-0213 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Discrete choice experiments—selecting the best and/or worst from a set of options—are increasingly used to provide more efficient and valid measurement of attitudes or preferences than conventional methods such as Likert scales. Discrete choice data have traditionally been analyzed with random utility models that have good measurement properties but provide limited insight into cognitive processes. We extend a well-established cognitive model, which has successfully explained both choices and response times for simple decision tasks, to complex, multi-attribute discrete choice data. The fits, and parameters, of the extended model for two sets of choice data (involving patient preferences for dermatology appointments, and consumer attitudes toward mobile phones)
agree with those of standard choice models. The extended model also accounts for choice and response time data in a perceptual judgment task designed in a manner analogous to best–worst discrete choice experiments. We conclude that several research fields might benefit from discrete choice experiments, and that the particular accumulator-based models of decision making used in response time research can also provide process-level nstantiations for random utility models.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Preference; Decision making; Best–worst scaling; Random utility model; Evidence accumulation; Linear ballistic accumulator |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Cognitive and computational psychology |
Research Field: | Decision making |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
ID Code: | 98935 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 34 |
Deposited By: | Medicine |
Deposited On: | 2015-03-10 |
Last Modified: | 2017-10-20 |
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