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Area of Science:

  • Decision-making
  • Organizational behavior
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Escalating commitment, the tendency to persist in failing endeavors, is a significant decision-making bias.
  • Reassigning responsibility is a widely adopted intervention to mitigate this bias.
  • Existing research primarily focuses on single-decision scenarios, lacking long-term and specific effectiveness evaluations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically evaluate the temporal stability and specific effectiveness of responsibility reassignment as an intervention against escalating commitment.
  • To introduce a modified escalation paradigm for testing intervention persistence and differentiating failure types.
  • To determine if responsibility reassignment reduces commitment only in structurally failing projects, not temporarily failing ones.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using a modified escalation paradigm.
  • Experiment 1 assessed the temporal stability of responsibility reassignment.
  • Experiment 2 examined the specificity of the intervention across structural (persistent failure) and temporary (ultimate success) failure conditions.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1 found no evidence for the temporal stability of responsibility reassignment.
  • Experiment 2 revealed persistent short-term effects, but these were non-specific.
  • The intervention reduced commitment to both ultimately losing and ultimately winning courses of action.

Conclusions:

  • Responsibility reassignment demonstrates a lack of temporal stability in mitigating escalating commitment.
  • The intervention's effects are non-specific, failing to differentiate between genuinely failing and temporarily struggling projects.
  • The findings question the overall effectiveness and practical utility of responsibility reassignment as a robust intervention against escalating commitment.