A person holds the handrail as they begin to ascend the stairs in the Provincial House on UMSL’s South Campus.

A person holds the handrail as they begin to ascend the stairs in the Provincial House on UMSL’s South Campus.
A person holds the handrail as they begin to ascend the stairs in the Provincial House on UMSL’s South Campus.
A person holds the handrail as they begin to ascend the stairs in the Provincial House on UMSL’s South Campus.
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.’