Once committed, the consequence of the freezing effect (as defined by Kurt Lewin in 1943) is an escalation of commitment that pushes the subject to complete a much heavier task linked to the initial one that justifies the completion of the first task.
Combining an obsessive focus with an unwillingness to give up might well be the perfect recipe for what some scholars call an escalation of commitment to a failing course of action.
To change the paradigm, we need an escalation of fiscal commitment equivalent to our response to the AIDS pandemic.
Its reaction was described as "an escalation of force".
Basically this can be viewed as an escalation of priorities for Pershing Square.
The majority of incidents logged by researchers — 354 — were categorized as a "escalation of a dispute".
Mindfulness can assist in being proactive and identifying when a decision should be made: clarifying the objectives, generating options, avoiding irrational escalation of commitment to a previous bad decision... as well as recognizing the ethical dimension of the choice to be made.
If you kept waiting at the restaurant or working with the employee, you fell into a trap that organizational behavior expert Barry Staw calls escalation of commitment to a losing course of action.
But it is rare that the theory of escalation of commitment can be defined as neatly as in Professor Shubik's auction game, which is why a self-described "entertainment shopping" site, Swoopo.com, is so fascinating.
We suggest each of these contributions – future-perfect strategising, strategic misrepresentation, and escalation of commitment – makes only a partial contribution, but also they can complement each other as elements in a more comprehensive perspective on the escalation phenomenon.
