The Hidden Traps in Decision Making

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Mind Map on The Hidden Traps in Decision Making, created by hazel.crawford on 02/06/2013.
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The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
  1. The anchoring trap
    1. Leads us to give disproportionate weight to the first information we receive
    2. The status quo trap
      1. Biases towards maiintaining the existing situation even when better alternatives exist
      2. The sunk-cost trap
        1. Inclines us to perpetuate the mistakes of the past
        2. The confirming-evidence trap
          1. Leads us to seek out information supporting an existing prediliction and to discount opposing information
          2. The framing trap
            1. Occurs when we mis-state a problem, undermining the entire decision making process
            2. the overconfidence trap
              1. Makes us overestimate the accuracy of our forecasts
              2. The prudence trap
                1. Leads us to be over-cautios when we make estimates about uncertain events
                2. The recallability trap
                  1. Leads us to give undue weight to recent, dramatic events.
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