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Elapsed Intervention Time Display to Mitigate Sunk Cost Bias

  • Summary: Display cumulative elapsed time during interventions to encourage a "cut-the-losses" mindset.

  • Problem: Users experience the sunk cost fallacy while waiting through long intervention screens, feeling that time already spent justifies waiting until the end rather than abandoning the app open entirely.

  • Proposed Solution: Add a live timer indicating how much time has already been spent inside the active intervention screen. Framing the metric as time lost/spent encourages a stop-loss mindset, prompting the user to cut their losses and exit earlier.

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