AUTHOR=Wei He-Lin , Hai Chen-Ying , Zhu Shao-Ying , Lyu Bei 

TITLE=The Impact of Consumers’ Choice Deferral Behavior on Their Intertemporal Choice Preference

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.555150

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.555150

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=This article examines the effect of choice deferral behavior on consumer intertemporal choice preferences. Additionally, it explores the mediating role of consumer hopefulness as well as the moderating role of the information integrity consumers perceive. Results show that (1) compared with nonchoice deferral, choice deferral could result in consumers preferring larger-later benefits when making intertemporal choices; (2) consumer hopefulness fully mediates the impact of choice deferral on intertemporal choice preference; and (3) the consumers’ perceived information integrity moderates the latter half of the mediating effect route.