Talk:Cognitive inertia

Update announcement
Hi Wiki world I just wanted to announce that I am planning on updating this page in the next couple of months for a graduate social psychology class I am currently in. If there is anything of importance you think I should know or take care with other than general guidelines feel free to reach out and thanks ahead of time. Abinnquist (talk) 21:06, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Just an update that I have added and modified quite a bit of this page. I tried to do it in subsections so it would be easier to trace back the changes. If anyone has any large disagreements with the changes I would really appreciate if you reached out first before changing or reverting just so we can discuss. I appreciate any minor changes though if I've missed any grammatical or structural errors and always open to a respectful discourse on why you think something may be inaccurate. Abinnquist (talk) 23:42, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Greyhound
At risk of being an armchair analyst... I don't have access to the journal source to verify what exactly was said here, but this reads suspiciously to me:


 * Greyhound's inability to integrate into the delivery market based on the view that they were a bus company and General Mills' continued operation of mills long after they were no longer necessary are examples of when companies refuses to change the mindset of how the company operates.

Wait, is Narayanan / Zane / Kemmemer saying that Greyhound's path to success would be to also compete with FedEx / UPS / USPS?! That strikes me as a severely weird proposition. There's a lot of companies that have thrown a pile of money at vaguely adjacent industries and gotten absolutely nowhere with it. It's not clear that there's any synergy afoot here as well (passenger-focused bus terminals & rented gates at existing terminals have very different needs than cargo loading stations). Maybe the authors think this would be some brilliant corporate play, but at the very minimum this would be an extreme, expensive gamble, and not at all obvious that this was rejected due to "cognitive inertia" rather than "this is an authentically risky idea to spread focus, and we reject it clear-headedly." Is there some better, less crystal bally example that could be given? SnowFire (talk) 20:07, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Would it be appropriate to add a few images of scientists that contributed to the psychology of cognitive inertia. I am just starting to edit articles, and noticed how the text is so blocked it is hard to follow, I personally (again, could be just new at this) feel that some photographs would allow a little more of an easy read. Otryad2018 (talk) 02:59, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Coronavirus
This unbelievable policy of the virus is making the virus making a pandemic. Samuel Gbla (talk) 11:04, 25 May 2020 (UTC)