How should people decide in situations involving risk, time, uncertainty, and multiattribute alternatives? How do people actually decide? In this article, we contrast the rational decision maker with the modal subject observed in experiments and surveys. We use a simple setup to present preference models and decision processes that are descriptively more accurate than the rational model.
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