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Decision Fatigue Effect

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Imagine the motor on your current refrigerator has just burnt out. You pop into an appliance store to buy a new one and the salesperson tells you about the assortment of options: top mount, bottom mount, side by side, French door, integrated ice maker, wireless connectivity. They explain the different capacities and energy efficiencies, from different brands, in different colours. They show you new release models, ones on sale and ones that are on special clearance. After you have walked around the displays multiple times and opened far too many tabs on your mobile phone browser to try to compare consumer reviews and check prices at other stores, you manage to narrow it down to just one.

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  1. Emergency Department, Mater Hospital, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Xiu Qing Lee

  2. University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

    Xiu Qing Lee

  3. University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Xiu Qing Lee

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Monash Health, Clayton, Australia

    Manda Raz

  2. Consultant Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Medicine, Research (DEMR), Department of Emergency Medicine, Casey Hospital, Monash Health, Victoria, Australia

    Pourya Pouryahya

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Lee, X.Q. (2021). Decision Fatigue Effect. In: Raz, M., Pouryahya, P. (eds) Decision Making in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0143-9_17

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