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  2. Escalation of commitment - Wikipedia

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    [4] The next phase of the escalation process is self-justification and rationalizing if the decision the leader made used resources well, if the resources being used were used to make positive change, and assuring themselves that the decision they chose was right. Leaders must balance costs and benefits of any problem to produce a final decision.

  3. Respect for persons - Wikipedia

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    Respect for persons is the concept that all people deserve the right to fully exercise their autonomy. Showing respect for persons is a system for interaction in which one entity ensures that another has agency to be able to make a choice. This concept is usually discussed in the context of research ethics.

  4. Heuristic (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is decisions relating to further investment in wars. In a war-based scenario, the costs are predominately borne by soldiers and taxpayers. Additionally, decision makers in war scenarios often do not have to directly or immediately bear the costs of their decisions at the same level as soldiers and taxpayers do, hence making ...

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    For example, when getting to know others, people tend to ask leading questions which seem biased towards confirming their assumptions about the person. However, this kind of confirmation bias has also been argued to be an example of social skill ; a way to establish a connection with the other person.

  6. How many decisions do we make each day? A new study reveals - AOL

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    Previous research into decision making. Noom's research looks at the informed choices we make on a daily basis and doesn't factor in the teeny tiny choices we make without even realising it. So ...

  7. Decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Impulsive decision-making and decision avoidance are two possible paths that extend from decision fatigue. Impulse decisions are made more often when a person is tired of analysis situations or solutions; the solution they make is to act and not think. [28] Decision avoidance is when a person evades the situation entirely by not ever making a ...

  8. Availability heuristic - Wikipedia

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    An availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision. As follows, people tend to use a readily available fact to base their beliefs on a comparably distant concept.

  9. Intuition and decision-making - Wikipedia

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    The ease of making a decision mediated mood improvement, as intuitive decisions were perceived as easier and therefore strengthening a person’s mood. Interestingly, findings imply that decisions that felt "right," despite how they were made, correlated to an enhanced mood. The study contributes to the theory of intuition and mood regulation.