Dear Participant,

            This questionnaire is designed to study aspects of decision making. The information you provide will help us better understand the processes individuals adopt to arrive at a decision. As you are the one who can give us a correct picture of how you make decisions, we request you to respond to the questions frankly and honestly.

You response will be kept strictly confidential. Only members of the research team will have access to the information you give.

The  completed questionnaires will not be made available to anyone other than the research team. A summary of the results will be mailed to you after the data are analyzed.

Note: Of the particpants who have filled the questionnaire carefully, 5 of them (identified by random number generation) will be rewarded Flipkart vouchers, each worth Rs. 500. The selected particpants will be intimated through email.

                                                                    

                                                                     Regards,

                                                                     Venkat Ram Reddy G

                                                                     MS Scholar

                                                                     Department Of Management Studies

                                                                     Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

                                                                     Email: ms13s011@smail.iitm.ac.in

General Information:

The following questionnaire has 10 sections. Kindly answer all the items across all the sections. Please read the instructions given bold-italics, at the beginning of each section before you start answering the questions. Further, please answer the sections according to the given sequence.

Please click on 'Next' to start with the survey.

Section 1:

Instructions:

Each of the following problems presents a choice between two options.  Each problem is presented with a scale ranging from 1 (representing one option) through 6 (representing the other option).  For each item, please choose the number on the scale that best reflects your relative preference between the two options. 

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Section 2:

Instructions:

Each of the following problems ask you to rate your judgment of a product or a situation.  Each problem is presented with a scale ranging from 1 (representing the worst rating) through 6 (representing the best rating).  For each problem, please choose the number on the scale that best reflects your judgment. 

Section 3:

Instructions:

This survey presents true/false questions about various aspects of everyday life.  You may think that some items do not have a clear-cut answer.  For those items, please try to give the answer that would be true in general, or in most cases.

For each of the following statements, circle true or false to indicate your answer.  Then circle a number on the scale to indicate how sure you are of your answer.  The scale ranges from 50% (meaning that you were just guessing) to 100% (meaning that you were absolutely sure).

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Section 4:

Instructions:

Each of these questions asks for your best guess at the chance that something will happen in the future.

Section 5:

Instructions:

Each of the following problems presents a choice between two options.  Each problem is presented with a scale ranging from 1 (representing one option) through 6 (representing the other option).  For each item, please circle the number on the scale that best reflects your relative preference between the two options. 

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Section 6:

Instructions:

Each of the following problems presents a choice between two options.  Each problem is presented with a scale ranging from 1 (representing one option) through 6 (representing the other option).  For each item, please circle the number on the scale that best reflects your relative preference between the two options. 

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Section 7:

Instructions:

Each of the following problems ask you to rate your judgment of a product or a situation.  Each problem is presented with a scale ranging from 1 (representing the worst rating) through 6 (representing the best rating).  For each problem, please circle the number on the scale that best reflects your judgment. 

Section 8:

Instructions:

For each of the statements below, please indicate to what extent the statement is characteristic of you.

Section 9:

Instructions:

For each of the statements below,please indicate the extent to which you disagree or agree.

Kindly note that 'work' here constitutes tasks releavnt to your current occupation.

Section 10:

Instructions:

Kindly indcate the following demographic details.

We sincerely appreciate your time and cooperation. Please check to make sure that you have not skipped any questions inadvertently and click on submit button.

                                                                                       Thank you!