Human Behavior

Motives & Decision Patterns

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Hidden Motives & Decision Patterns

Understand how people use themselves as a model for others, protect existing beliefs, overlook warning patterns, and continue investing in choices that no longer serve them.

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  1. 01

    Projection: When We See Ourselves in Other People

    Why we assume other people think more like us than the evidence allows.

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  2. 02

    Confirmation Bias: How the Mind Protects Its Story

    How an existing belief changes the search for evidence before a person realizes it.

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  3. 03

    Why People Ignore Red Flags They Can Clearly See

    Why recognizing a warning intellectually does not always change behavior.

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  4. 04

    The Sunk-Cost Trap: Why We Stay With Bad Decisions

    Why unrecoverable past investments keep influencing decisions about the future.

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