Information acquisition and cognitive processes during strategic decision-making: Combining a policy-capturing study with eye-tracking data

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dc.contributor.authorPizzo, Aliceen
dc.contributor.authorFosgaard, Toke R.en
dc.contributor.authorTyler, Beverly B.en
dc.contributor.authorBeukel, Karinen
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-17T19:16:04Zen
dc.date.available2023-04-17T19:16:04Zen
dc.date.issued2022-12en
dc.description.abstractPolicy-capturing (PC) methodologies have been employed to study decision-making, and to assess how decision-makers use available information when asked to evaluate hypothetical situations. An important assumption of the PC techniques is that respondents develop cognitive models to help them efficiently process the many information cues provided while reviewing a large number of decision scenarios. With this study, we seek to analyze the process of answering a PC study. We do this by investigating the information acquisition and the cognitive processes behind policy-capturing, building on cognitive and attention research and exploiting the tools of eye-tracking. Additionally, we investigate the role of experience in mediating the relationship between the information processed and judgments in order to determine how the cognitive models of student samples differ from those of professionals. We find evidence of increasing efficiency as a function of practice when respondents undergo the PC experiment. We also detect a selective process on information acquisition; such selection is consistent with the respondents' evaluation. While some differences are found in the information processing among the split sample of students and professionals, remarkable similarities are detected. Our study adds confidence to the assumption that respondents build cognitive models to handle the large amounts of information presented in PC experiments, and the defection of such models is not substantially affected by the applied sample.en
dc.description.notesThis work was supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation [Grant #21630] "Investigating the micro foundations of socioeconomic impact of university-industry relations", but the foundation was not involved in the study design, the data collection/analysis or the writing of the manuscript.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNovo Nordisk Foundation [21630]en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278409en
dc.identifier.issue12en
dc.identifier.othere0278409en
dc.identifier.pmid36454962en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/114528en
dc.identifier.volume17en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAttribute non-attendanceen
dc.subjectwillingness-to-payen
dc.subjectvisual-attentionen
dc.subjectorganizational-researchen
dc.subjectpartner selectionen
dc.subjecttime pressureen
dc.subjectchoiceen
dc.subjectsearchen
dc.subjectpreferencesen
dc.subjectjudgmenten
dc.titleInformation acquisition and cognitive processes during strategic decision-making: Combining a policy-capturing study with eye-tracking dataen
dc.title.serialPlos Oneen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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