Perfectionism and Preference Cycles: A Behavioral Model of Deficiency-Penalized Utility

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This paper introduces a formal behavioral model to explain how perfectionist tendencies, especially those associated with obsessive-compulsive traits, can lead to systematic violations of transitive preferences and inefficient decision-making. Drawing from behavioral economics and clinical psychology, we propose a deficiency-penalized utility framework, in which individuals evaluate each option not only by its int...

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• Avoidance Learning
• Follow-Up Studies
• Interpersonal Relations
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Nucleus Accumbens
• Reproducibility of Results
• Young Adult

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d8b5903b-9d30-55d9-96f0-ca3b2ac2f7dc

DOI

10.20944/preprints202504.1514.v4