BGU Study Helps Explain Decision Fatigue
BGU Study Helps Explain Decision Fatigue
August 22, 2011
BGU’s Dr. Shai Danziger’s study of judges at parole hearings in Israel is the first example mentioned in the article “Do You Have Decision Fatigue?” in this past week’s New York Times Magazine.
Decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily sensible people get angry at colleagues and families, splurge on clothes, buy junk food at the supermarket and can’t resist the dealer’s offer to rustproof their new car.
No matter how rational and high-minded you try to be, you can’t make decision after decision without paying a biological price.
By studying over 1,100 decisions, the BGU study found that in many cases getting paroled was all about timing.
Prisoners who appeared early in the morning received parole about 70 percent of the time, while those who appeared late in the day were paroled less than 10 percent of the time.
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