Why people ‘pass the buck’
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 11:31
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 […]