More options, more action: contradicting a classic finding

From Donald Redelmeier and Eldar Shafir’s (1995) classic paper in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association: Intervention: The basic version of each scenario presented a choice between two options. The expanded version presented three options: the original two plus a third. … Results: In one scenario involving a patient with osteoarthritis, family physicians were less likely to…