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旁白：现在听一节心理学课上关于这个话题的部分内容。

Narrator: Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a Psychology class.

教授：好的，这是我自己生活中的一个例子。

Professor: Okay, so an example of this from my own life.

我在帮助我的一个朋友买房子做决定。

I was helping a friend of mine decide on a house to buy.

He had been in the market to buy a house,

他把它缩小到一个他感兴趣的房子。

and he had it narrowed down to this one house that he was interested in.

他真正喜欢这个房子的地方是它有一个很好的位置。

What he really liked about this house was it had an excellent location.

那是在一个很好的地方，实际上是在他工作的城镇的同一个地方，

It was in a great place that was actually in the same part of town where he was working,

所以他不用非得开车去上班，这是他真正喜欢的。

So he wouldn't have far to drive to get to work, which he really liked.

然而，这所房子的缺点是它比他想买的要小。

However, the downside of this house was that it was smaller than what he was hoping to buy.

他想买一幢大房子，这房子不够大。

He'd wanted to buy a sort of a big house, and this house just wasn't that big.

但我的朋友最终还是决定买下这栋房子。

But my friend eventually did decide to buy the house.

And a few years after he made the purchase,

我记得当时我们在谈论这个决定，以及他为什么决定买下这栋房子。

I remember we were talking about the decision and why he decided to buy the house.

他告诉我，当然，那是因为房子的位置。

He told me, well, of course, it was because of the house's location.

他告诉我他有多高兴，因为这离他的工作太近了，

He told me how happy he was with the fact that it was so close to his work,

离他的工作只有几分钟的路程，真是太好了。

how great it was that it was only a few minutes from his job.

我说，是的，但是它的大小呢？

Do you still think the house is kind of small?

“小？你说的小是什么意思？”

Like he didn't know what I was talking about.

房子的大小，在买了几年之后，

The house's the size, a couple of years after buying it,

just didn't seem to be on his mind anymore.

Choice-Supportive Bias &nbsp;
People often make decisions by considering the advantages and disadvantages of each option. However, after a person selects an option, there is a tendency for that person to exhibit the choice-supportive bias. After selecting an option, a person may begin to favor that option. Without being fully aware of it, people who exhibit this bias tend to focus on and remember only the advantages of the option they selected. As time passes, they will overlook the option’s disadvantages, eventually even forgetting them.&nbsp;
 
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 Explain how the example from the professor’s lecture illustrates the choice-supportive bias.