Complacency, Defensive Avoidance and Panic Are All Basic Reaction Patterns

Complacency, defensive avoidance and panic are all basic reaction patterns that are barriers to effective decision making because individuals:

A) fail to accept the challenge of the problem.
B) conduct an insufficient search for alternatives.
C) are unable to overcome these common decision-making biases.
D) so affected become a major part of the escalation phenomenon.