decision making

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• The Trolley Problem: Ethics, Variants, and Why It Matters
  The trolley problem asks whether to divert a runaway trolley to kill one person instead of five. Explore its variants, the ethical theories, and AI applications.
• The Monty Hall Problem: Why Switching Wins 2/3 of the Time
  In the Monty Hall problem, switching doors wins the car two-thirds of the time. See the counterintuitive probability explained step by step, with its assumptions.
• Mental Accounting
  Thaler's finding that people partition money into labeled mental accounts and spend, save, and regret differently by account.
• The Framing Effect
  Logically identical choices made differently depending on wording: gains invite caution, losses invite risk.
• Anchoring
  How an initial number — even an arbitrary one — pulls later numerical judgments toward itself, and why expertise barely helps.
• Present Bias and Hyperbolic Discounting
  Why the same one-day delay looms larger today than next month: preference reversals, β-δ models, and commitment devices.
• Opportunity Cost
  The value of the best alternative forgone when making a choice — the fundamental concept of economic scarcity.
• Loss Aversion
  The behavioral-economics finding that losses are felt more strongly than equivalent gains, formalized in prospect theory.