Linda is the manager of a graphic design company.Her IT team asked her consent to upgrade the editing software used by the employees.Linda remembered that when such an upgrade was made in the previous month,all the systems crashed and work was affected for several days.So,she refused to give consent for the upgrade,even though such upgrades had been generally useful in the past.Which human compromise has influenced this decision?
A) Recency syndrome
B) Simplicity
C) Bounded rationality
D) Stereotype

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People more readily remember events that have occurred recently than those that took place sometime in the past. This tendency is known as the recency syndrome. Linda only focused on the negative experience that she had in the near past and ignored all the times that the software upgrades actually helped the company.

Linda Is the Manager of a Graphic Design Company