Journal
PSYCHOMETRIKA
Volume 88, Issue 2, Pages 697-729Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-022-09876-4
Keywords
eye movements; task switching; choice; search; decision making; hidden Markov model
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This article reviews recent advances in the psychometric and econometric modeling of eye-movements during decision making. Eye movements provide a unique perspective on the perceptual, cognitive, and evaluative processes involved in decision making and have the potential to explain search and choice phenomena and predict future decisions. The article proposes a theoretical framework that emphasizes the role of task and strategy switching for complex goal attainment.
This article reviews recent advances in the psychometric and econometric modeling of eye-movements during decision making. Eye movements offer a unique window on unobserved perceptual, cognitive, and evaluative processes of people who are engaged in decision making tasks. They provide new insights into these processes, which are not easily available otherwise, allow for explanations of fundamental search and choice phenomena, and enable predictions of future decisions. We propose a theoretical framework of the search and choice tasks that people commonly engage in and of the underlying cognitive processes involved in those tasks. We discuss how these processes drive specific eye-movement patterns. Our framework emphasizes the central role of task and strategy switching for complex goal attainment. We place the extant literature within that framework, highlight recent advances in modeling eye-movement behaviors during search and choice, discuss limitations, challenges, and open problems. An agenda for further psychometric modeling of eye movements during decision making concludes the review.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available