Yup: “when a consumer thinks the universe will right a corporate wrong, that person tends not to harbor negative feelings toward the corporation and probably will refrain from consumer activism like boycotts”.

These people believe that everything will be handled by other people, not through their own actions. These people are misinformed.

Dead ends and small spaces push back more strongly, according to the researchers, while the route with the greatest surface area, which also happens to be the one with the exit, offers the path of least resistance.

So this can’t be generalized to all mazes. If there was a greater surface area in a dead end path, it would have gone that way.