Describe the more or less rational psychological process that occurs when the decision maker is restructuring his or her appraisal of the various options so that the to-be-chosen option will emerge as the dominant one

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One way we restructure the decision so that our "to-be-chosen" candidate comes out on top is by de-emphasizing those decision-critical attributes on which our promising candidate may be weaker. Another way is to bolster the option by increasing the significance of an attribute on which the option is stronger. A third way is to collapse attributes into larger groupings. This allows for the argument that our option is good as it performs well on one of the subgroups.

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