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decision making
Your ability to make good choices erodes by evening.
Decision fatigue suggests that quality of judgment declines after repeated choices, a phenomenon famously illustrated by Danziger et al. (2011) in their study of parole judges.
The attribution to Vohs et al. (2008) is incorrect; that paper focuses on how making choices depletes self-control in laboratory tasks.
The quality of your late-day choices is compromised by the morning's efforts.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Vohs et al., 2008
- What the check found
- While the psychological concept of decision fatigue is recognized, the claim misattributes the famous judicial study to Vohs et al., 2008. The correct citation for the judge study is Danziger et al. (2011).
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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