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Decision Fatigue

Pay Less, Feel Worse? The Counterintuitive Psychology of Your Monthly Subscriptions

5 February 2024·1076 words·6 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Psychology Subscriptions Consumer Behavior Decision Fatigue Mental Accounting Consumer Psychology Decision-Making and Bias

Why small, recurring subscription payments create outsized psychological pain—and the surprising trade-offs that keep us subscribing anyway.

The Psychology of Scarcity & Abundance - Part 5: The Attention Famine in the Content Feast

31 January 2024·402 words·2 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Attention Famine Cognitive Bandwidth Digital Abundance Decision Fatigue Modern Scarcity Decision-Making and Bias Consumer Psychology Social Dynamics

Explore how digital abundance creates new forms of scarcity, depleting our cognitive bandwidth and creating modern attention famines.