The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
You dont believe it but our minds our wired in certain ways…we need to recognise this and try to mitigate
For the same situation:
People will take a sure thing vs a risk for more if they see a potential gain
They will take a risk against a sure thing for a smaller loss if they see a potential loss
Also
Given two options where one option 'feels' more likely than another but is actually a subset of another then people will instinctively choose the former - the Linda problem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy