The Group Later Learns That the Drug Will Be Very

question 6

Multiple Choice

The group later learns that the drug will be very expensive to manufacture, but the group decides to continue the project so that all the resources already spent on it will not have been wasted. This is an example of ________.

• A) availability bias
• B) hindsight bias
• C) escalation of commitment
• D) satisficing
• E) fundamental attribution error

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