Consumers often face decisions that involve choosing among assortments comprised of multiple options. In this article, we examine how assortment size influences consumer choice among assortments and, in particular, how assortment attractiveness moderates this process. In particular, we propose...

An important decision that retailers make involves selecting the number of items comprising their assortments. A key issue in making these decisions concerns the role that assortment size plays in determining consumers' choice of a retailer. We address this issue by investigating how consumer...

This article examines how consumers' purchase-quantity goals influence their choice of an assortment. It documents that consumers are more likely to choose an assortment when its size matches the desired purchase quantity - a strategy referred to as the quantity-matching heuristic. The reliance...

This article examines how confirmatory reasoning moderates the impact of attractive and unattractive common features on consumer preferences. Building on the existing research on confirmatory information processing and the motivated reasoning framework, I propose that consumers evaluate common...