Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or...

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The general flow of events that causes implementation of the escalation of commitment heuristic are as follows: A large amount of resources is invested...

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the escalation of commitment to a course of action. This theory, grounded in social psychology and organisation behaviour, suggests the tendency of people...

Psychological Reports, 38(1), 135-140. Staw, B. M. (1981). The escalation of commitment to a course of action. Academy of management Review, 6(4), 577–587....

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Anti-pattern Cost overrun Scope (project management) Planning poker Escalation of commitment Instruction creep Mission creep The Mythical Man-Month Second-system...

PMC 6324799. PMID 30620741. Heath, Chip. "Escalation and de-escalation of commitment in response to sunk costs: The role of budgeting in mental accounting." Organizational...

profitable to the seller. This pattern of behavior toward or resulting in a negative outcome is called escalation of commitment. People generally look to other...