Choice perseverance underlies pursuing a hard-to-get target in an avatar choice task

People sometimes persistently pursue hard-to-get targets. Why people pursue such targets is unclear. Here, we hypothesized that choice perseverance, which is the tendency to repeat the same choice independent of the obtained outcomes, leads individuals to repeatedly choose a hard-to-get target, whic...

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Main Authors: Michiyo Sugawara, Kentaro Katahira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.924578/full