Causality analysis of decision entrapment

• Main Authors: LIN, Chia-Wu, CHENG, Bor-Shiuan, TSAI, Ming-Hong
• Format: text
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
• Subjects: Entrapment Behavior; Self-justification; Prospect Theory; Certainty Effect; Experimental Approach; Applied Behavior Analysis; Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2190; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3447/viewcontent/alistfs1601095557113148_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

"Decision entrapment" refers to the phenomenon that decision-makers commit to the negative or failure choices, and tend to throw more resources in some projects that seem to fail certainly. We try to combine two contradictory viewpoints, self-justification vs. information-processing perspe...