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memory
You remember your past choices as better than they were.
Choice-supportive bias is the tendency to retroactively attribute positive attributes to an option you selected and negative attributes to those you rejected.
After making a decision, your memory for the pros and cons of the options shifts to justify your choice. You essentially rewrite your own decision-making history to ensure you feel you made the objectively best call.
You are a master at manufacturing your own consistency.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Mather, Shafir, and Johnson, 2000
- What the check found
- The definition is accurate to the psychological construct. The citation (Mather, Shafir, and Johnson, 2000) is correct for the seminal research on this specific bias.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.