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Showing posts with label Solution Aversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solution Aversion. Show all posts

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Solution aversion affects decision making.


Solution Aversion 

This psychology experiment discovered that people tend to discount the likelihood of a possible outcome when they have an aversion to the solution.

I.E.  A Republican is told that the only way to reduce climate change is through a carbon tax, that Republican discounted the likelihood of climate change versus a Republican that was told the way to solve climate change is to hire people and invest in alternate energy companies.  This demonstrates a bias towards/ against  likely event probability estimation due to ideological beliefs. 

So in other words, ideological thinking hampers real consideration of important issues.