Abstract
Decision inertia is a serious problem in financial decision-making and thus a challenge for decision support systems. We discuss recent findings and review antecedents and consequences of decision inertia from a psychological perspective. We use these insights to develop IT-based methods designed to overcome decision inertia using psychologically optimized financial decision support systems. Furthermore, we propose an experimental study to evaluate the design features of such a system. Our work is a first step in designing adaptive decision support systems that detect situations in which the user is prone to decision inertia and react by adapting interface elements appropriately that might otherwise exacerbate decision inertia – for a specific user in a specific decision situation.
Recommended Citation
Jung, Dominik; Erdfelder, Edgar; and Glaser, Florian, "Nudged to Win: Designing Robo-Advisory to Overcome Decision Inertia" (2018). Research-in-Progress Papers. 19.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2018_rip/19