IDEA #28
Your willpower levels are precious and finite
Decision fatigue is a real and dangerous problem.
What you need to know
Research into more than 1,000 parole board decisions in Israel demonstrated the potentially devastating impact of exhausting our ‘willpower’ (a process also known as ‘decision fatigue’). In around one-third of cases, parole for prisoners was approved, but the fluctuation of the variation in parole decisions was staggering. Prisoners appearing early in the morning received parole in around 70 per cent of instances, compared to only 10 per cent of prisoners appearing before the board in the evening. Analysing the ...
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