Talk:Status quo bias

Staying the same not same as status quo

"people like things to stay relatively the same." -- Staying the same is not the same thing as maintaining the status quo, as I understand the definitions of those idioms. Perhaps it should say "stay as they currently are" or "stay as they have been over time" or "stay within the bounds of the known and familiar" or "stay unperturbed from the present state." I have no knowledge of this topic, I'm just making a linguistic point. Ryanluck 18:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

The Latin phrase "status quo ante", from which we derive English "status quo", means literally "the situation that [existed] before". Maintaining the status quo, then, is keeping things as they were; however, this article is about a bias favoring the status quo, rather than about maintaining it. A "bias" is a cognitive preference or predisposition to act, whilst "maintaining" is a verb - an action, which may spring from a bias or whatever other causes. I think the present text is OK. yoyo (talk) 03:34, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

I want to add that desiring the status quo is not emotional in any way. Is there even any justification for this as the opening line of the article? I've never seen any research suggesting so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 133.46.61.200 (talk) 05:01, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Would like to extend the "status quo bias" stub

Hello,

I am working on an extensive article on the status-quo bias.

Hope that I am not stepping on anyone's toes.

Cheers (Grunfe07 (talk) 04:21, 21 March 2012 (UTC)).

Bad syntax and no punctuation!

This page has horrible syntax and no punctuation in some areas. The section headings/titles are broken.

I cleaned this up somewhat, but there are still significant problems with organization, coherence, language, and accuracy. On the accuracy point, the section about "behavioral economics and default" seemingly claims that these two economists showed that by making retirement saving the default option, they increased the retirement savings rate at a company. In fact, the economists cited studies that had already done that. What they did was a more complex intervention that utilized multiple cognitive effects in order to increase the RATE at which employees saved, and the economists admitted that they didn't know which effects were really responsible for the positive results they obtained. There is a LOT OF WORK left to be done here. Somewhat Agree (talk) 23:23, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

On "Politics", under the section labeled "Relevant fields"

"Preference for the status quo represents a core component of conservative ideology because preference for the status quo is one significant element of conservative ideology". Isn't this a bit tautological? 190.188.125.230 (talk) 17:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Going to be changing the language, improving section orders, and adding content

In line with theAPS-Wikipedia Initiative I will be filling out this article so that it will better fit the Wikipedia Guidelines and hopefully achieve more than a stub status. I will be referencing scholarly articles I have used on a research papers including one that is currently under peer-review about Status Quo Bias and Engineering decisions. Lokistrategiesinc (talk) 16:39, 26 February 2013 (UTC)