请注意!

Attention Please!

Econometrica · 2021
被引 17
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

研究了在决策者顺序学习多个选项时,操纵其注意力对最终选择的影响。发现当存在外部选项时,引导注意力总能使该选项更可能被选中,无论其价值高低。

Abstract

We study the impact of manipulating the attention of a decision‐maker who learns sequentially about a number of items before making a choice. Under natural assumptions on the decision‐maker's strategy, directing attention toward one item increases its likelihood of being chosen regardless of its value. This result applies when the decision‐maker can reject all items in favor of an outside option with known value; if no outside option is available, the direction of the effect of manipulation depends on the value of the item. A similar result applies to manipulation of choices in bandit problems.

注意力操纵序列决策外部选项多臂老虎机问题