The article reviews the definitions of sunk cost and the sunk cost effect, the categories of the sunk cost effect and its functional areas, then makes explanations in terms of psychological theories.

文章概括了沉没成本及沉没成本效应的定义，沉没成本的种类和发生领域，并用心理学理论对沉没成本效应进行了解释。

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For the Jets, the 2013 off-season will be about whether they recognize the old economics idiom that sunk cost are sunk.

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