The summer sun shines on the atrium of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

The summer sun shines on the atrium of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
The summer sun shines on the atrium of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
The summer sun shines on the atrium of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
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.’