1Department of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD.
Psychol Sci. 2014 Feb;25(2):369-76. doi: 10.1177/0956797613503853. Epub 2013 Dec 6.
In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of mindfulness meditation on the sunk-cost bias. We conducted four studies (one correlational and three experimental); the results suggest that increased mindfulness reduces the tendency to allow unrecoverable prior costs to influence current decisions. Study 1 served as an initial correlational demonstration of the positive relationship between trait mindfulness and resistance to the sunk-cost bias. Studies 2a and 2b were laboratory experiments examining the effect of a mindfulness-meditation induction on increased resistance to the sunk-cost bias. In Study 3, we examined the mediating mechanisms of temporal focus and negative affect, and we found that the sunk-cost bias was attenuated by drawing one's temporal focus away from the future and past and by reducing state negative affect, both of which were accomplished through mindfulness meditation.
在本研究报告中，我们调查了正念冥想对沉没成本偏差的消除效果。我们进行了四项研究（一项相关研究和三项实验研究）；结果表明，正念冥想的增加减少了让不可挽回的先前成本影响当前决策的倾向。研究 1 初步相关表明特质正念与对沉没成本偏差的抵抗力之间存在正相关关系。研究 2a 和 2b 是实验室实验，研究了正念冥想诱导对增加对沉没成本偏差的抵抗力的影响。在研究 3 中，我们研究了时间焦点和负面情绪的中介机制，发现通过将时间焦点从未来和过去转移以及通过减少状态负面情绪，可以减弱沉没成本偏差，而这两者都是通过正念冥想实现的。
