13. Points to note
• Awareness of traps in our thinking
• Keep questioning assumptions
• Seek various perspectives/frames
• Understand decision styles of self, others
• Encourage dissent
• Cultivate culture of openness, failure acceptance
• Awareness of yes-(wo)men, groupthink
• Use nominal techniques to allow private votes
14. QUIZ – 3 [take home]
Individually work and
• Map which traps and biases from the reading would
significantly affect which stages of the decision making
process. Substantiate with examples [10 marks]
• Submit a print copy in tomorrow’s class
15.
16. Mental accounting
• Imagine that you have decided to see a movie and
have paid the admission price of $10 per ticket. As
you enter the theater, you discover that you have
lost the ticket. The seat was not marked, and the
ticket cannot be recovered. Would you pay $10 for
another ticket?
• 46% ready to buy
17. • Imagine that you have decided to see a movie
where admissionis $10, but you have not yet
bought the ticket. As you walk to the theater, you
discover that you have lost a $10 bill. Would you
still pay $10 for a ticket to the movie?
• 88% ready to buy