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    "pk": 25485,
    "title": "Explaining Choice Behavior: The Intentional Selection Assumption",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "How do people decide between several options presented to\nthem? Normative accounts suggest the utilities of options are\nfixed, but subjective accounts suggest utilities depend on\ncontext. In the current paper, we propose a novel model of\nchoice that may help reconcile these accounts. We propose\nthat choice behavior may depend on an “Intentional Selection\nAssumption”: when people are presented with multiple\noptions, they assume the options were intentionally selected\nby a person with specific questions in mind. Inferences about\nthe intentional selection of options inform the chooser about\nthe features that are intended to be most relevant. In this way,\ncontext can affect the desirability of a particular option,\nwithout requiring shifting utilities over features. Two\nbehavioral experiments support the claim that participants are\nsensitive to intentional selection. We discuss the importance\nof taking choosers’ assumptions about intentional selection\ninto account in future investigations of choice behavior.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "intentional selection; choice; computational\nmodeling"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44h7854j",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kelley",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Durkin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Leyla",
            "middle_name": "R",
            "last_name": "Caglar",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychology, Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bonawitz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychology, Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Patrick",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Shafto",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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