Sunk cost sensitivity during change-of-mind decisions is informed by both the spent and remaining costs.
Commun Biol
; 5(1): 1337, 2022 12 07.
Article
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| ID: mdl-36474069
ABSTRACT
Sunk cost sensitivity describes escalating decision commitment with increased spent resources. On neuroeconomic foraging tasks, mice, rats, and humans show similar escalations from sunk costs while quitting an ongoing countdown to reward. In a new analysis taken across computationally parallel foraging tasks across species and laboratories, we find that these behaviors primarily occur on choices that are economically inconsistent with the subject's other choices, and that they reflect not only the time spent, but also the time remaining, suggesting that these are change-of-mind re-evaluation processes. Using a recently proposed change-of-mind drift-diffusion model, we find that the sunk cost sensitivity in this model arises from decision-processes that directly take into account the time spent (costs sunk). Applying these new insights to experimental data, we find that sensitivity to sunk costs during re-evaluation decisions depends on the information provided to the subject about the time spent and the time remaining.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Base de données:
MEDLINE
Sujet principal:
Prise de décision
Type d'étude:
Diagnostic_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
Limites:
Animals
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Humans
Langue:
En
Journal:
Commun Biol
Année:
2022
Type de document:
Article
Pays d'affiliation:
États-Unis d'Amérique