Essay On Decision Sidestepping

This short abstract will serve as a guideline to better understand the findings and research outlined in the article. Authors of the article set out to research the idea of decision making and how motivation to achieve closure could force one to resort to decision sidestepping. Research suggests: unconscious choice to elect the default bias, choice delegation, status quo bias, inaction inertia, and option fixation are directly tied to electing decision sidestepping as a form of decision making to achieve closure in person highly motivated for an end result. Mentioned choices coincide with a notion that are directly tied to norm, a prior decision, or a credible source. Research articles findings suggest that indeed there is a strong correlation between decision sidestepping and motivation to achieve closure.

1 What are the key issues the research set out to address? What are the key findings? Why are they important?
Key issues were to prove that decision sidestepping occurs when person/persons are engaged in decision making that is unfamiliar and or bothersome. Indeed, researchers were able to prove that participants highly motivated for closure engaged in decision sidestepping as a form of coping mechanism for uncomfortable or bothersome choices. These findings are important in several ways. First, such decision …show more content…
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