Student volunteers gave incoming freshman Katie Kluesner (center) a helping hand as she set up her room in Oak Hall during UMSL’s Move-In Day on Friday.

Student volunteers gave incoming freshman Katie Kluesner (center) a helping hand as she set up her room in Oak Hall during UMSL’s Move-In Day on Friday.
Student volunteers gave incoming freshman Katie Kluesner (center) a helping hand as she set up her room in Oak Hall during UMSL’s Move-In Day on Friday.
Student volunteers gave incoming freshman Katie Kluesner (center) a helping hand as she set up her room in Oak Hall during UMSL’s Move-In Day on Friday.
Grossman and his research collaborators found motivated reasoning as one of the root causes of why invitees so often respond to invitations with ‘maybe’ instead of a definitive ‘yes’ or ‘no.’