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Testing the Attraction Effect on Two Information Visualization Datasets

Year: 2016

Type: report

Abstract: The attraction effect is a well-studied cognitive bias in decision making research, where people's choice between two options is influenced by the presence of an irrelevant (dominated) third option. In another article, we report on two crowdsourced experiments showing compelling evidence that the attraction effect can generalize to visualizations. However, we also conducted another experiment between the two where we failed to observe an effect. This experiment used scatterplots generated from real datasets, and restricted participants' choice between exactly two alternatives. In accordance with the principle of full reporting, we report on this experiment and discuss the possible reasons for this negative result.

Source: HAL

Authors: Dimara, Evanthia, Bezerianos, Anastasia, Dragicevic, Pierre

Institution: ILDA: Interacting with Large Data

Language: English

Topic: Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Subfield: General Decision Sciences

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2617989519

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