Contextual features influence human and non-human decision making, giving rise to preference reversals. Decades of research have documented the species and situations in which these effects are observed. More recently, however, researchers have focused on boundary conditions, that is, settings in which established effects disappear or reverse. This work is scattered across academic disciplines and some results appear to contradict each other. We synthesize recent findings and resolve apparent contradictions by considering them in terms of three core categories of decision context: spatial arrangement, attribute concreteness, and deliberation time. We suggest that these categories could be understood using theories of choice representation, which specify how context shapes the information over which deliberation processes operate.

上下文特征影响人类和非人类的决策，导致偏好逆转。数十年的研究记录了观察到这些影响的物种和情况。然而，最近，研究人员专注于边界条件，即既定效果消失或逆转的环境。这项工作分散在各个学科中，有些结果似乎相互矛盾。我们综合最近的发现并通过从决策上下文的三个核心类别来考虑它们来解决明显的矛盾：空间安排、属性具体性和审议时间。我们建议可以使用选择表征理论来理解这些类别，这些理论指定了上下文如何塑造商议过程运行的信息。