Online Product Reviews and the Description–Experience Gap
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12166367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dirk U Wulff (0000-0002-4008-8022, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany, corresponding author), Thomas T Hills (0000-0003-3842-2076, University of Warwick Coventry UK), Ralph Hertwig (0000-0002-9908-9556, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 214-223 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-3257 • E-ISSN: 1099-0771 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/bdm.1841 |
| OpenAlex | W1892807301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 40 |
People can access information about choices in at least two ways: via summary descriptions that provide an overview of potential outcomes and their likelihood of occurrence or via sequential presentation of outcomes. Provided with the former, people make decisions from description ; with the latter, they make decisions from experience . Recent investigations involving risky choices have demonstrated a robust and systematic description–experience gap. Specifically, when people make decisions from experience, rare events tend to have less impact than what they deserve according to their objective probability. Here, we show that this description–experience gap generalizes from choices involving monetary gambles to choices based on (hypothetical) online product ratings. We further show that causes that have been identified in the context of risky choice also contribute to the description–experience gap in choice based on online product ratings: reliance on relatively small samples of information and overweighting of recently sampled information (recency). We conclude with a discussion of the practical implications of our results and identify promising directions for cross‐disciplinary investigations. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Computer security · Context (archaeology · Information gap · Presentation (obstetrics · Product (mathematics · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |