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task segmentation effect: a standalone construct

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Behavioral operations

the finding that breaking a task into its subtasks before estimating leads people to allot more time, reducing planning fallacy underestimation.

In behavioral operations, task segmentation effect refers to the finding that breaking a task into its subtasks before estimating leads people to allot more time, reducing planning fallacy underestimation. This meaning comes from Forsyth (2008) in Memory & Cognition.[1]

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  1. Forsyth, D. K., & Burt, C. D. B. (2008). Allocating time to future tasks: The effect of task segmentation on planning fallacy bias. Memory & Cognition, 36(4), 791-798. https://doi.org/10.3758/mc.36.4.791

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