| 单词 | sunk-cost fallacy |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunk-cost fallacy attributive. Used in psychology and behavioural economics with reference to a reluctance to abandon a strategy or course of action in which one has already invested heavily even when it is clear that abandonment is rationally the correct response, as sunk-cost effect, sunk-cost fallacy, etc. ΚΠ 1968 Columbia Law Rev. 68 645 Related to the Commission's sunk cost fallacy is its joint cost fallacy. 1981 A. Tversky & D. Kahneman in Science 30 Jan. 457/1 A sunk-cost effect arises when a decision is referred to an existing account in which the current balance is negative. 2008 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 18 Feb. c1 Worse yet is the so-called sunk-cost effect—ruinous to your stock portfolio, your love life and your poker game. 2010 New Yorker 18 Oct. 28/2 The familiar sunk-cost fallacy made things worse. < as lemmas |
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