Mental models/Commitment and Consistency
Behavioral & Decision Making

Commitment and Consistency

Robert Cialdini's principle that once people commit to a position or action, they are motivated to behave consistently with that commitment.

In plain language

Once people commit to something — publicly or privately — they feel pressure to behave consistently with that commitment.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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