St. Louis Osuwa Taiko drummers (from left) Jack Glennon, Hitomi Salini and Natsuki Kobayashi are all members of the UMSL campus community.

St. Louis Osuwa Taiko drummers (from left) Jack Glennon, Hitomi Salini and Natsuki Kobayashi are all members of the UMSL campus community.
St. Louis Osuwa Taiko drummers (from left) Jack Glennon, Hitomi Salini and Natsuki Kobayashi are all members of the UMSL campus community.
St. Louis Osuwa Taiko drummers (from left) Jack Glennon, Hitomi Salini and Natsuki Kobayashi are all members of the UMSL campus community.
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.’