Opinion | There's a Name for the Trap Joe Biden Faces - The New York Times - 0 views
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this trap: escalation of commitment to a losing course of action. In the face of impending failure, extensive evidence shows that instead of rethinking our plans, we often double down on our decisions.
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It feels better to be a fighter than a quitter.
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we can’t know for sure which decisions will turn out to be good. But decades of research led by the organizational psychologist Barry Staw have identified a few conditions that make people especially likely to persist on ill-fated paths.
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