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decision making

You judge the quality of a choice by its outcome.

Outcome bias is the tendency to evaluate the intelligence of a decision based on the final result rather than the quality of the process used to make it.

If you make a reckless bet and win, you feel like a genius; if you make a sound bet and lose, you feel like a failure. Your brain rewards the outcome and ignores the logic that led there.

You are learning the wrong lessons from your past experiences.

Where this comes from

Study
Baron and Hershey, 1988, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
What the check found
The definition is accurate to the psychological literature and the citation to Baron and Hershey (1988) is correct. Absence of a quote in the provided text does not negate the veracity of the well-established finding.
Confidence
Solid, with limits

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