Anne Gregory, Francis Huang, Allison Rae Ward-Seidel
Evaluation of the whole school restorative practices project: One-year impact on discipline incidents
Journal of school psychology
resource saving bias cognitive bias describing resource savings improvements highproductivity units overestimated compared improvements less productive units motivational reasoning describes attitudes towards privatepublic health care distort decisions based numerical facts participants made choice two productivity increase options goal saving doctor resources options described productivity increases lowhighproductivity privatepublic emergency rooms jointly biases produced 78 incorrect decisions cognitive bias stronger motivational bias verbal justifications decisions revealed elaborations problem beyond information provided biased integration quantitative information change goal decision motivational attitude biases 83 incorrect decisions based incorrect mathematical justifications illustrating resource saving bias participants better scores cognitive test made poorer decisions women gave qualitative justifications greater extent men made correct decision first decision participants informed correct decision mathematical explanation 63 participants corrected decisions information illustrating facts resistance could explained psychological sunk cost coherence theories made wrong choice remembered facts problem better made correct choice