Debiasing the mind through meditation: : mindfulness and the sunk-cost bias

• Autores: Andrew C. Hafenbrack, Zoe Kinias, Sigal G. Barsade
• Localización: Psychological Science, ISSN-e 1467-9280, Vol. 25, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 369-376
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of mindfulness meditation on the sunk-cost bias. We conducted four studies (one correlational and three experimental); the results suggest that increased mindfulness reduces the tendency to allow unrecoverable prior costs to influence current decisions. Study 1 served as an initial correlational demonstration of the positive relationship between trait mindfulness and resistance to the sunk-cost bias. Studies 2a and 2b were laboratory experiments examining the effect of a mindfulness-meditation induction on increased resistance to the sunk-cost bias. In Study 3, we examined the mediating mechanisms of temporal focus and negative affect, and we found that the sunk-cost bias was attenuated by drawing one�s temporal focus away from the future and past and by reducing state negative affect, both of which were accomplished through mindfulness meditation.