= 6,709 adult participants from in-person and online pools), we demonstrate that a majority of people prefer to consider risks before rewards. This preference is associated with individual sensitivity to economic ambiguity, but not a general need for structure. We further show that self-selected sequences are useful not only for predicting information-seeking behavior in financial and marketplace contexts but also for predicting downstream behavior in terms of choice process and choice outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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