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Status Quo Bias in Decision Making

peer-reviewed foundational Samuelson and Zeckhauser 1988, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1, 7-59

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“Across experiments and real health-plan and retirement-plan data, people disproportionately stay with the status quo option.”

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