Triple Washed, Twice Shy?

Once bitten, twice shy.

Left-sided acute appendicitis: Once Bitten twice shy

Department of General Surgery, K. B. Bhabha Municipal Hospital, Bandra, Mumbai. Address of Correspondence Dr. Vinaykumar Thati Flat No. 2, New Pragati CHS, Vijay Manjrekar Lane, Off Gokhale road (north), Dadar West,

Once bitten, twice shy: experienced regret and non-adaptive choice switching

When a good decision leads to a bad outcome, the experience of regret can bias subsequent choices: people are less likely to select the regret-producing alternative a second time, even when it is still objectively the best alternative (non-adaptive choice switching). The first study presented herein showed that nearly half of participants experiencing regret rejected a previous alternative they...

Once Bitten, Twice Shy: On the Transient Nature of Congruency Sequence Effects

Life is ambiguous at times, presenting conflicting situations and conflicting response tendencies. For example, when confronted with a jinxing soccer opponent, you might easily be fooled by a skillful leg feint and fail to react to the direction of the ball. Here, your goal-directed action – no pun intended – is executed by resisting the impulse to react to the distracting jinx maneuver and ins...

Once Burned, Twice Shy: Naïve Learning, Counterfactuals, and the Repurchase of Stocks Previously Sold

We establish two previously undocumented patterns in the purchase selections of individual investors and confirm a related pattern. These patterns hinge on investors’ previous experience with a stock. We demonstrate that investors prefer to (1) repurchase stocks that they previously sold for a gain, (2) repurchase stocks that have lost value subsequent to a prior sale, and (3) purchase addition...