Table 1.
Decision situations and the operationalization of variations across the three situational factors.
Fig 1.
Study procedure: Part 1 containing the eight vignettes, Part 2 the additional questionnaires and demographic data.
Fig 2.
Study flow chart: Reduction process of N = 782 participants that opened the online survey to N = 312 that completed the study and were analyzed finally (with N = 78 for each vignette).
Fig 3.
The three situational factors “time pressure”, “lack of information,” and “attractivity” of the choice-set (white: low; dark: high) and the respective probabilities of decision deferral and option refusal (in percent).
Table 2.
Variations in decision deferral and option refusal depending on the manipulated factors of the situation.
Table 3.
Correlation analyses about the associations between personal factors, selection difficulty, and the two forms of decision avoidance.
Table 4.
Results of the multilevel models of decision deferral and option refusal.
Table 5.
Satisfaction with the decision-making behavior overall and separately for the manipulated situational conditions.
Table 6.
Results of the multilevel models of selection difficulty.