We investigate the joint use of partitioning and sorting as a choice architecture to overcome consumer choice overload in large product sets. Partitioning first presents a small initial set of alternatives with the option to click through to see the remaining alternatives. Sorting presents...

In the months before the 2020 U.S. election, several campaign websites added pre-checked boxes (defaults), automatically making donations into recurring weekly contributions unless donors unchecked them. Since these changes occurred at different times for different campaigns, we measure the...

Expectations about how long one will live are essential for making informed choices about many important personal decisions. We propose that beliefs (expectations) about longevity are a response constructed at the time of judgment, subject to irrelevant task and context factors, and leading to...