Science Says Get Out Of Your Dead End Relationship

People (and mice, and rats) over-value sunk costs in their decision-making processes. Time for us to value the future more.

Sunk costs — the resources invested in getting something before we’ve actually gotten it — should essentially never be a factor in deciding whether we continue to try to get the thing we are after. And yet, biologically, sunk costs turn out the be a bigger influence on our irrational need…