Summary: This assembly is appropriate for the beginning of the school year and to use during Lent, when children may be thinking about 'right' and 'wrong'. You may also choose to use this assembly to demonstrate a school rule of making good choices if the children are struggling to keep this rule.

Bad Decision-Making: Why It Happens and How to Do Better

But why do some of us experience a constant state of regret, where we feel we are always messing up? Psychologists have several theories about regret. 1. You are an idealist. An understanding of why you make bad decisions will profoundly enhance the success of all your future decision-making by preventing you from making choices you end up regretting. 6 reasons why we make bad decisions and how to avoid them 1. We seek social approval Time to stop feeling regretful and start making positive choices? We connect you to top London-based psychotherapists and counselling psychologists who can help. Or use our booking platform to find affordable UK-based registered therapists and online counsellors.While you can't force someone to change their mind, you can act as a positive influence. You might start by asking them to take a break and consider other options before making up their mind. Encourage them to talk to someone else if they struggle with a decision. If they persist with their poor decision, focus on being empathetic and forgiving while gently encouraging them to make better choices going forward. A famous (if now dated) study by American psychologists Iyengar and Lepperlooked at how likely people were to buy jam if they were faced with many options. It turns out people were more likely to buy from a small display of six choices than a bigger one of 24. A more recent 2018 study used brain scans to show that although we enjoy knowing we have choice, our brains goes into ‘choice overload’ beyond 12 choices. We let indecision reign. The cognitive bias in our brains pushes our intuition to act. Our powers to assess and judge information weaken with the blur of choice and result. But we don’t stop there. We don’t learn from those mistakes. We live with the experience of a terrible decision, blame ourselves or others for not thinking out right only to repeat the same mistakes again. Diamond, Jared. "Living Through the Donner Party." Discover. March 1, 1992. (May 10, 2013) http://discovermagazine.com/1992/mar/livingthroughthe4#.UY1xnLXvunE

Negative lifestyle choices – the implications - Health and

In Think Again, Adam Grant writes “When we dedicate ourselves to a plan and it isn’t going as we hoped, our first instinct isn’t usually to rethink it. Instead, we tend to double down and sink more resources in the plan. Psychologists call this pattern escalation of commitment.” A visual support for behaviour is something that supports children to make good behaviour choices. These cards are a type of visual support for behaviour.Vincent, Alice E. "Rejection Letters: The Publishers Who Got It Embarrassingly Wrong...." The Huffington Post UK. Nov. 7, 2012. (May 10, 2013) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/16/publishers-who-got-it-wrong_n_1520190.html Conradt, Stacy. "Sweet Talk, Day Four: M&M's." Mental Floss. Oct. 29, 2007. (May 10, 2013) http://mentalfloss.com/article/17260/sweet-talk-day-four-mms