How does Leonie make decisions?

Leonie Egger seeks advice and backing before deciding. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is high and conscientiousness is medium.

What does Leonie react critically to?

Above all when something touches Leonie’s core concerns: “At the career information evening, a bank employee talks to forty teenagers in the hall like she already knows every one of them, while the slide behind her advertises a student account with terms that only show up in the fine print” and “In a forum, someone describes in dramatic terms how hard the written psychology entrance test gets once more people show up than there are open places.” The bias that shapes Leonie’s judgment most is “Deadline-proximity bias in her weighting.”

Leonie Egger

Student, 7th grade at a Realgymnasium (academic secondary school) · part-time job at an ice cream parlor · Innsbruck-Pradl, Tyrol

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Life-World: The Pioneers · Curiosity & Trends Decides: dependent 17 yrs · Austria

Keeping three fields of study open at once isn't hesitation for the Realgymnasium student from Innsbruck-Pradl — it's Leonie's own plan not to shut any door too soon before her Matura, the Austrian school-leaving exam. Between school, her part-time job at the ice cream parlor, and volleyball practice, she works through the odds and the costs soberly, but in the end she waits to hear what her mother and her sister say, and she won't let anyone rush her — not even herself.

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Tech affinity

Compares study-program portals, financial-aid calculators, and shared-flat platforms side by side in parallel, switching between laptop and phone without it costing her any effort. TikTok and Instagram are her research tools just as much as her entertainment; she often weighs real students' first-hand accounts more heavily than official info pages, even though she's well aware that a single viral post doesn't have to be representative.

Defining bias

When a registration deadline moves closer on the calendar, the corresponding field of study suddenly weighs heavier in her mind, regardless of what she's actually gathered for or against it substantively; once the date has passed or another deadline is closer, that same field loses weight again just as fast, without the facts having changed at all.

How she decides

On the big questions, she waits before moving in any direction at all, for what a particular person will end up saying about it, and keeps the actual commitment open until that voice has spoken. Small, everyday decisions she makes quickly and without fuss — which shift to swap, what to cook. The moment money is involved, she checks the math twice before committing a single euro to the study-year budget; for advice, she prefers to go to her sister, because she's the only person in her circle who's already walked that path, detours and all.

Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Leonie tick

Openness

73 · high

Conscientiousness

60 · medium

Extraversion

68 · high

Agreeableness

68 · high

Neuroticism

46 · medium

Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

Deadline-proximity bias in her weighting high

Anchoring on a still-outstanding voice high

Social-proof bias, testimonial over statistic medium

Values

Self-determination
Honesty
Team loyalty
Fairness

Fears

At the career information evening, a bank employee talks to forty teenagers in the hall like she already knows every one of them, while the slide behind her advertises a student account with terms that only show up in the fine print.
In a forum, someone describes in dramatic terms how hard the written psychology entrance test gets once more people show up than there are open places.
Running the numbers with a student-aid calculator and the going shared-flat price, a gap remains that she can't close even with the maximum rate and a summer job.
At practice, a new teammate keeps mixing up the setting calls, and after the third lost rally Leonie snaps at her unusually sharply.

Motivations

On the economics program page, she finally finds the one sentence about admission odds she's been searching for for days.
On the phone, her sister tells her without sugarcoating it that her first year in the shared flat was financially tight despite the student aid, and that she had to ask their father for help twice.

Common questions

Leonie at a glance

How does Leonie make decisions?: Leonie Egger seeks advice and backing before deciding. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is high and conscientiousness is medium.
What does Leonie react critically to?: Above all when something touches Leonie’s core concerns: “At the career information evening, a bank employee talks to forty teenagers in the hall like she already knows every one of them, while the slide behind her advertises a student account with terms that only show up in the fine print” and “In a forum, someone describes in dramatic terms how hard the written psychology entrance test gets once more people show up than there are open places.” The bias that shapes Leonie’s judgment most is “Deadline-proximity bias in her weighting.”
What is Leonie suited for as a test persona?: For pretesting content from the perspective of “Student, 7th grade at a Realgymnasium (academic secondary school) · part-time job at an ice cream parlor”, Life-World “The Pioneers · Curiosity & Trends” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

What Leonie pays attention to

What convinces Leonie — and what puts Leonie off

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Convincing

Self-determination · Honesty · Team loyalty

Off-putting

At the career information evening, a bank employee talks to forty teenagers in the hall like she already knows every one of them, while the slide behind her advertises a student account with terms that only show up in the fine print. · In a forum, someone describes in dramatic terms how hard the written psychology entrance test gets once more people show up than there are open places.

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What convinces

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Reservations & concerns

At the career information evening, a bank employee talks to forty teenagers in the hall like she already knows every one of them, while the slide behind her advertises a student account with terms that only show up in the fine print.; In a forum, someone describes in dramatic terms how hard the written psychology entrance test gets once more people show up than there are open places..

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How Leonie decides

Seeks advice and backing before deciding.

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Strongest cognitive bias

Deadline-proximity bias in her weighting — shapes the judgment.

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