The graduate student was in the middle of a creative writing workshop when she learned she’d been selected as UMSL’s poet laureate for 2016.

The graduate student was in the middle of a creative writing workshop when she learned she’d been selected as UMSL’s poet laureate for 2016.
The graduate student was in the middle of a creative writing workshop when she learned she’d been selected as UMSL’s poet laureate for 2016.
The graduate student was in the middle of a creative writing workshop when she learned she’d been selected as UMSL’s poet laureate for 2016.
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.’