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Sunk cost sensitivity in mice, rats, and humans on the Restaurant Row and WebSurf tasks cannot be explained by attrition biases alone
A. David Redish, Brian M. Sweis, Samantha V. Abram…·Mark John Thomas
The paper tests a model proposing that sunk cost sensitivity in foraging tasks is due to task performance mechanics, finding it incompatible with data and supporting actual sunk cost sensitivity.