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\nWe've all experienced the sunk cost fallacy: when you are deep into a task and tell yourself that you’ve come this far, so you may as well finish it. We do this even if it's no longer logical to finish. So why do we do it?\nWe've all experienced the sunk cost fallacy: when you are deep into a task and tell yourself that you’ve come this far, so you may as well finish it. We do this even if it's no longer logical to finish. So why do we do it?\n
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4:24
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12th - Higher Ed
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Social Studies & History
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2019
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English
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factors, money, years, time
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decision, group, suggested, feel, spent, sunk cost, idea, sunk cost fallacy, lost cause, competitor, psych, situation, resource, continue, thing, effort, study published, project, hand, commit, lost causes, explanation, study, people, theories, paid
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