This session will review a search that took place over several weeks in Colorado in 2023-24. Modern decision theory as proposed by Daniel Kahneman (Thinking, Fast and Slow), Leon Festinger and Barry Staw (Cognitive Dissonance, Disconfirmed Expectancies) and Irving Janis (Groupthink), will provide a framework to review the facts of this search. The purpose of the session is to help searchers consider their own cognitive processes when making decisions about where and how to deploy resources.