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Modeling Choice Strategies for Noncomparable Alternatives

Michael D. Johnson

Marketing Science · 1986 · Volume 5 · Issue 1

DOI: 10.1287/mksc.5.1.37

Abstract

Theoretical models are developed for two strategies consumers use to choose among “noncomparable” alternatives. The models view consumers as trading off decision error and processing effort when selecting a decision strategy. The models predict the use of choice strategies, and implicit abstraction processes, for noncomparable alternatives in a number of different circumstances.

Keywords

comparability, choice strategies, error/effort trade-offs

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