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The effect of cognitive load on economic decision making: A survey and new experiments
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“Cognitive load must be managed for effective problem-solving and clinical decision-making (correct decisions/reduction of errors), as levels of cognitive load influence decisions and outcomes38,49–53.”
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“Generally, because EHRs have higher data usability prompts, they encourage physicians to engage more deeply with patient information3,4,44,49,54.”
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“Evidence of a detrimental impact of cognitive load on temporal choices is mixed.”
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“Additional experiments conducted by Deck and Jahedi (2015) confirmed the above results and showed that cognitive load increased both risk aversion and money-related impatience.”
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“In their overview of empirical research, Deck and Jahedi (2015) show consistent evidence that cognitive load increases risk aversion.”
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“These results contradict both the hypothesis that financial scarcity increases risk aversion and findings that cognitive load increases risk aversion (Deck and Jahedi 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Deck, C., & Jahedi, S.
- Affiliations
- Chapman University (US)
- RAND Corporation (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jahedi, Salar
- ORCID
- Deck, Cary
- Venue
- European Economic Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-08
- Volume
- 78
- Pages
- 97-119
- ISSN
- 0014-2921 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1717300320
- Cited by
- 304
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 46 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 9.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- European Economic Review (publishedVersion)
- Chapman University Digital Commons (Chapman University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Keywords
- cognitive load, economic decision-making, risk aversion, intertemporal choice, anchoring effect, snack selection, numeracy, mathematics achievement, time preference, individual heterogeneity
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