How to Be Awesome at Your Job

728: Uncovering the Hidden Elements that Influence Decisions with Eric Johnson

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Dec 16, 2021
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ANECDOTE

Health Crisis Sparked Research

  • Eric Johnson recounts his stage-four Hodgkin's diagnosis and how it led him to study decision-making around treatment choices.
  • That personal crisis sparked his obsession with how presentation of options shapes life-or-death choices.
INSIGHT

Defaults Shift Even Serious Choices

  • Defaults strongly influence choices because they reduce effort and signal endorsement.
  • Even high-stakes medical decisions shift dramatically when one option is preselected.
INSIGHT

Framing Alters Perceived Products

  • Labels and framing change how we mentally assemble preferences for identical options.
  • People perceive 70% lean and 30% fat hamburgers as different products purely from wording.
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