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Eyal WinterEyal Winter

Eyal Winter is the Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner Professor of Behavioural/Industrial Economics at Lancaster University, UK. His research areas include Game Theory, Behavioral Economics and Decision‐Making. He is also the Silverzweig Professor of Economics at the Center of the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University

How fear of regret runs our lives – and how to break free

24 February 2019 by Eyal Winter

From the ‘sunk cost bias’ to decision paralysis, being overly fearful of regret can lock us into bad relationships, jobs and habits. But it doesn’t have to be this way, writes Eyal Winter. How many times have you thought about starting a company, taking a year out to write that novel or leaving a loveless … Read more

Categories Featured, Science Tags behaviour, Psychology, regret

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