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Psychological research suggests (1) narrowing down to a series of binary choices: Japanese or American brand? Japanese Honda or Toyota? Honda. SUV or car? C
by calcsam 12y ago
Psychological research suggests
(1) narrowing down to a series of binary choices:
Japanese or American brand? Japanese
Honda or Toyota? Honda.
SUV or car? Car
Civic or Accord? Accord
Used or new? New
Red or black? Red
(2) Decisions are emotional, not just logical. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotions_in_decision-making http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotions_in_decision-making.
A good example of this is people who experience damage to their prefrontal cortex. Not only do they experience changes to their emotions, they are unable to make decisions, deliberating extremely long for the simplest things.
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/3/624.abstract http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/3/624.abstract