Fait accompli
Fait accompli (German: accomplished fact ) is a French phrase. The idiom used in German denotes an irreversible situation with which someone is presented with a fait accompli.
The “fait accompli effect” was described in decision theory: This arises when difficulties arise after the decision about a certain option in the implementation, so that another, unselected option appears better in retrospect. In order to avoid cognitive dissonance , however, people will continue to choose the previous option, since according to their rationalization the decision has already been made and cannot be reversed.
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Wiktionary: Fait accompli - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Riesenhuber: The wrong decision: cause and escalation. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 3-8350-0509-X , pp. 83f.