New research explores why people ‘pass the buck’

Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 12:21 in Psychology & Sociology

People are more likely to del­e­gate decisions—or “pass the buck”—when faced with choices that affect others than when those deci­sions affect only them­selves, according to new research from Mary Steffel, assis­tant pro­fessor of mar­keting in the D’Amore-McKim School of Busi­ness at North­eastern University. From a series of exper­i­ments, Steffel and her col­lab­o­ra­tors found that these […]

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