The feeling of throwing good money after bad: The role of affective reaction in the sunk-cost fallacy.

PLoS One · 2019 · PMC6324799 · PMID 30620741

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The effect of affective reaction on sunk-cost scores was only marginally significant under low cognitive load, β = .21, t (123) = 1.90, p = .060, η p 2 = .05.

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