We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an …, which contradicts most theories of choice such as expected utility but is consistent with a theory of responsibility … pattern that is also consistent with this theory and entails substantial allocative consequences. …

In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects' willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right … likelihood of receiving her preferred task if she rather than another participant makes the decision. Participants pay more to …

when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …

thereby distort optimal search. In addition, urgency may alter decision-making processes and thereby the salience of regret … interaction on search behavior in a pre-registered, theory-based, and well-powered experiment. We find that urgency reduces … decision times and perceived decision quality but does not alter search length. Only very inexperienced decision-makers buy …

are information seeking otherwise. Because belief updating depends on the decision problem in which new information is …

preferences. Among the behavioral patterns that allow for a clear-cut interpretation on the decision level, we find that roughly …

An extensive literature has studied ambiguity aversion in economic decision making, and how ambiguity aversion can …