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Decision Psychology
12 Common Decision-Making Biases (and How to Counter Them)
A field guide to twelve of the most common cognitive biases that distort choices, each with a one-line description and a concrete countermeasure you can apply today.
How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis
Why over-analysis grips us, and six practical fixes — satisficing, decision deadlines, shorter shortlists, the 70% rule, two-way doors, and good-enough thresholds — to get unstuck.
Decision Journaling: How to Learn From Your Own Choices
A decision journal records what you thought at the moment you chose, before the outcome is known — defeating hindsight and outcome bias. Includes a copy-ready template and a sample entry.
Regret Minimization: A Framing Device, Not a Scoring Algorithm
Regret minimization is best known as a mental exercise for weighing a choice from a distance. The scorer on this site turns a narrower, formal version of that idea into arithmetic. A worked commute example, computed with the real tool, shows exactly what got kept and what got left out.
When to Decide and When to Wait: A Timing Framework
Deciding too early and deciding too late are opposite mistakes with the same root cause: no explicit plan for how much time a decision actually deserves. Two worked examples, computed with ReDecide's own timing planner, show how to set that plan deliberately instead of guessing.
Sunk Cost: Recognising It in Your Own Reasoning
Everyone can define the sunk cost fallacy in the abstract. Catching it live, in your own list of reasons, is the hard part. A worked continue-or-pivot example, computed with ReDecide's own pros and cons scorer, shows exactly how much one sunk-cost item can distort a result.
Satisficing vs Maximising: Why "Good Enough" Often Beats "The Best"
Maximisers search exhaustively for the best option; satisficers stop at the first one that clears their bar. A worked apartment-hunt example, computed with ReDecide's own decision matrix, shows a case where maximising finds the objectively better option — and still tends to leave the maximiser less satisfied with it.