The advent of electronic environments is bound to have profound effects on consumer decision making. While the exact nature of these influences is only partially known it is clear that consumers could benefit from properly designed electronic agents that know individual users' preferences and...

Shaping choices -- Plausible paths -- Assembled preferences -- Goals of choice architecture -- Decisions by default -- How many options? -- Putting things in order -- Describing options -- Building choice engines -- Becoming better choice architects.

Purpose: This paper aims to test TV sponsorship bumper effects, for the same brand, on 30-s TV spot advertising. Design/methodology/approach: An experimental study tests sponsorship bumpers and 30-s TV spot ads for eight brands, four familiar and four unfamiliar, using realistic stimuli and a...