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Decision Fatigue
Decision fatigue is the deterioration of the quality of decisions people make after a long session of decision making.
This was coined by social psychologist Roy Baumeister who argues that making too many decisions eventually depletes our willpower to the point where we're unconcsiously making increasingly poor decisions.
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Dealing With Decision Fatigue
- Reduce your number of daily decisions. Reserve your energy for important decisions and cut down on the unnecessary trivial ones.
- Make decisions in advance.
- Changes your mindset about willpower. Start believing that willpower is not limited because this kind of mindset keep...
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The Impact of Decision Fatigue
- Impaired ability to make trade-offs - this is an energy-consuming type of decision making and when we're faced with too many we end up mentally depleted
- Impulse purchases - decisions regarding prices and promotions produce decision fatigue
- Decision avoidance - when our men...
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“Decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily sensible people get angry at colleagues and families, splurge on clothes, buy junk food at the supermarket and can’t resist the dealer’s offer to rustproof their new car. No matter how rational and high-minded you try to be, you can’t make decisi...
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- Decision avoidance - when our men...
Decision Fatigue
Is the decline in the quality of decisions that are made by a person after many decisions have been made in a row.
Just like your muscles tiring out after a long cardio workout, your brain is also a muscle that becomes exhausted.
Persistent cognitive fatigue
Ongoing cognitive fatigue results in burnout at work, lower motivation, distractibility, and poor information processing. It also lowers the quality of judgment and decisions, including those of experts.
For instance, scientists found judges were more likely to pass favou...
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