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  Psychological and Situational Drivers of Over-Retention in Large-Scale Household Sorting An analytical report on biases, decision delay, and a low-risk keep-versus-discard matrix Research report 20 March 2026 Prepared in formal academic English for a broad interdisciplinary audience Abstract This report analyses why people sorting large volumes of household possessions often overestimate the benefits of keeping items, underestimate the costs of retention, and postpone disposal decisions. The report addresses the problem as a bounded-rationality challenge that emerges under uncertainty, time pressure, and cumulative decision load. Its aim is not to treat all keeping as error, but to identify the conditions under which systematic bias is likely and to propose a simple decision matrix that reduces such errors without exposing genuinely valuable, irreplaceable, or identity-relevant items to unnecessary disposal. The analysis synthesizes research from behavioura...