Experimentation Framework for Investigating Compensatory and Noncompensatory Decision-Making

The current study presents the effort of using the Lens Model framework, originally conceived by Brunswik, to investigate compensatory and noncompensatory decision makings. More specifically, we seek to validate the approach for using the rule-based formulation of the Lens Model to characterize noncompensatory behavior. Our current research program proposes a coherent experimentation framework to investigate human decision-making strategies with regard to environmental variations. We are particularly interested in the effects of task ecology, time pressure, and task workload on decision strategies in a simulation experiment. Through the proposed empirical investigation, we seek to establish a baseline for characterizing compensatory and noncompensatory decision-making behaviors.