CHAPTER 4

Status Quo Bias is the idea that people prefer things to stay the same rather than change them. Rather than taking a different action that may cause change, people choose to do nothing so that nothing will change because of a fear of change. 

As soon as someone was thinking of changing what they did and how they fit into the cliques of the school, the status quo was threatened, and the students worried about how they would all fit together after that. They didn't want to have what they knew, the status quo, change. Although those changes happened and it brought many people closer, there was fear among the other students because of the changes in the status quo.