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Decision MakingMember ingredient
Outcome Bias
Knowing whether a decision turned out well or badly can distort how its quality is judged relative to the information available when it was made.
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Outcomes Affect Evaluations of Decision Quality: Replication and Extensions of Baron and Hershey’s (1988) Outcome Bias Experiment 1
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- What it supports
- Decision-quality evaluations differed with outcome valence, supporting the core outcome-bias finding in the replicated scenario.
- Where it may not transfer
- The replicated paradigm lacked a no-outcome baseline, so it cannot isolate how merely revealing an outcome shifts judgement. One scenario does not establish prevalence in product teams.
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