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  2. The Paradox of Choice - Wikipedia

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    In other words, after choosing an alternative with a plurality but not a majority of utility, people remember the sum of the lost utility rather than that they made the "utility-maximizing" choice. Schwartz maintains that one of the downsides of making trade-offs is it alters how we feel about the decisions we face; afterwards, it affects the ...

  3. Decision fatigue - Wikipedia

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    Decision fatigue is a phrase popularised by John Tierney, and is the tendency for peoples’ decision making to become impaired as a result of having recently taken multiple decisions. [ 5 ] Decision fatigue has been hypothesised to be a symptom, or a result of ego depletion . [ 6 ]

  4. Decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Sample flowchart representing a decision process when confronted with a lamp that fails to light. In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options.

  5. Abilene paradox - Wikipedia

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    The fifth component refers to the defeat of the group leader to poor decision making in order to avoid making similar decisions in the future. There are several factors that may indicate the presence of the Abilene Paradox in the decision-making process: [4] Leaders who publicly do not fear the unknown. Such arrogance leads them to go along as ...

  6. Delaying tactic - Wikipedia

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    Delaying tactics can be employed, either intentionally or subconsciously, as a coping mechanism to avoid making difficult decisions or performing unpleasant tasks. [6] The reasons that an individual may use delay tactics may vary, but motivations often include maintaining control and avoiding change; especially when this change is unwanted.

  7. Choice - Wikipedia

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    The other assumes that individuals can experience regret if they make a suboptimal choice, and sometimes avoid making a choice to avoid experiencing regret. [20] Further research has expanded on choice overload, suggesting that there is a paradox of choice. As increasing options are available, three problems emerge.

  8. Regret (decision theory) - Wikipedia

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    Regret aversion is not only a theoretical economics model, but a cognitive bias occurring as a decision has been made to abstain from regretting an alternative decision. To better preface, regret aversion can be seen through fear by either commission or omission; the prospect of committing to a failure or omitting an opportunity that we seek to ...

  9. Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia

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    This can involve making a change in our behavior immediately after the negative event occurred. By actively making a behavioral change, we are completely avoiding the problem again in the future. An example is forgetting Mother's Day, and immediately writing the date on the calendar for the following year, to avoid the problem. [17]