Bush Uses the Language of Entrapment to Sell the War in Iraq

Why won't you give up on that car that keeps breaking down? Psychologist Scott Plous calls this entrapment, a phenomenon that compels people to not cut their losses when they should. "Psychology cannot predict the future...but Plous said it can warn you to be vigilant if a course of action is primarily justified in terms of recovering what has been lost."

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