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user-inactivated  ·  2989 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So apparently Hillary Clinton fainted today and r/politics is on fire about it.

    As an aside, I don't know why I'm over in that subreddit so much.

Sunk Cost Fallacy in action





bhrgunatha  ·  2988 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Like a lot of our thinking patterns, it's such a strong influence because it's easy to overlook or miss altogether.

That and the mental equivalent of junk food or other bad habits we know are bad for us but they set our brain's reward centres briefly incandescent.