Decision Making of Maximizers and Satisficers Based on Collaborative Explanations

05/29/2018
by   Ludovik Coba, et al.
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Rating-based summary statistics are ubiquitous in e-commerce, and often are crucial components in personalized recommendation mechanisms. Largely left unexplored, however, is the issue to what extent the descriptives of rating distributions influence the decision making of online consumers. We conducted a conjoint experiment to explore how different summarizations of rating distributions (i.e., in the form of the number of ratings, mean, variance, skewness or the origin of the ratings) impact users' decision making. Results from over 200 participants indicate that users are primarily guided by the mean and the number of ratings and to a lesser degree by the variance, and the origin of a rating. We also looked into the maximizing behavioral tendencies of our participants, and found that in particular participants scoring high on the Decision Difficulty subscale displayed other sensitivities regarding the way in which rating distributions were summarized than others.

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