Do the great majority of cases of not being significantly enough affected by losing such relationships to prevent the avoidance of the loss of the relationship from being primarily engendered by the sunk-cost fallacy imply the presence of sociopathy?
(I’m trying to see if I understand the implications of your statement properly. I would think there could be other factors involved that wouldn’t necessarily prevent the relationship from being considered valued. Perhaps those are rare enough to not affect your statement.)
I’m not a psychologist, and perhaps the use of “sociopath” was hyperbole. And I can imagine the (to my mind) sad situation of being surrounded only by relationships so shallow that no one would suffer much distress if you just picked up and moved, but it definitely looked like that was not the case here, and I would like to think that it’s not the caae for most married couples with children. I’m not saying that the sunk cost fallacy doesn’t come into play when a couple is considering divorce (I suspect it’s very strong), but I think that even in most divorces there are emotional (and other) repercussions that should be looked at as results of your choices rather than as artifacts of cognitive bias.
Do the great majority of cases of not being significantly enough affected by losing such relationships to prevent the avoidance of the loss of the relationship from being primarily engendered by the sunk-cost fallacy imply the presence of sociopathy?
(I’m trying to see if I understand the implications of your statement properly. I would think there could be other factors involved that wouldn’t necessarily prevent the relationship from being considered valued. Perhaps those are rare enough to not affect your statement.)
I’m not a psychologist, and perhaps the use of “sociopath” was hyperbole. And I can imagine the (to my mind) sad situation of being surrounded only by relationships so shallow that no one would suffer much distress if you just picked up and moved, but it definitely looked like that was not the case here, and I would like to think that it’s not the caae for most married couples with children. I’m not saying that the sunk cost fallacy doesn’t come into play when a couple is considering divorce (I suspect it’s very strong), but I think that even in most divorces there are emotional (and other) repercussions that should be looked at as results of your choices rather than as artifacts of cognitive bias.