People differ in the way they make decisions: some people prefer intuitive, some reflective decision making (Epstein et al., 1996). To assess these individual differences, a new measure was constructed assessing the individual preference for deliberation and the preference for intuition on two...

The current paper provides a German translation of the maximizing scale, originally presented by Schwartz, Ward, Monterosso, Lyubomirsky, White, and Lehman (2002). The maximizing scale assesses the individual tendency to strive for optimal versus satisfactory decisions. A translation of the...

The purpose of this document is to describe methodological details of the German SAVE survey and to provide users of SAVE with all necessary information for working with the publicly available SAVE dataset.

The understanding of human behavior in sequential decision tasks is important for economics and socio-psychological sciences. In search tasks, for example when individuals search for the best price of a product, they are confronted in sequential steps with different situations and they have to...