Abstract
This study extended research on choice by determining if choice making behavior can be influenced by altering the consequences associated with choice. Participants were 8 undergraduate college students. They were given the opportunity to choose themselves or to have the experimenter choose for them among simple office tasks in 3 different experiments. In the first experiment, the consequences of choosing were made more favorable than the consequences of not choosing. Participants did not respond differentially. In Experiment 2, the consequences of not choosing were made even less favorable. Two of the 3 participants reallocated their responding towards choosing for themselves. In Experiment 3, for participants who showed an initial preference for choice, the consequences of choosing were made less favorable than the consequences of not choosing. Both participants included in Experiment 3 selected to have the experimenter choose for them.