Debiasing the Mind Through Meditation
Psychological Science December 6, 2013 Andrew Hafenbrack, Zoe Kinias, Sigal G. Barsade 351 citations
In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of mindfulness meditation on the sunk-cost bias. We conducted four studies (one correlational and three experimental); the results suggest that increased mindfulness reduces the tendency to allow unrecoverable prior costs to influence current decisions. Study 1 served as an initial correlational demonstration of the positive...