{"slug":"commitment-consistency","name":"Commitment and Consistency","category":"Mental model","definition":"Small commitments today dramatically raise the probability of large commitments tomorrow — people have a strong drive to behave consistently with prior choices, especially ones that were public, voluntary, and effortful. Freedman & Fraser (1966) showed a trivial petition tripled compliance with a much larger request two weeks later. Cialdini (1984) systematized it as one of six universal influence levers.…","latest_skill_md":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills/main/commitment-consistency/SKILL.md","playbook_url":"https://www.deciqai.com/skills/commitment-consistency?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=commitment-consistency","install":"npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills","repo":"https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills","agents":{"note":"deciqAI agents run this skill autonomously against your live business data — the hosted version stays current and executes, this file only reads.","start_free":"https://www.deciqai.com/?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=commitment-consistency"}}