Critical Reasoning (CR) | A study of project teams at professional service firms found that

­A study of project teams at professional service firms found that those teams feeling high levels of pressure to perform well for their clients tended to leave their clients less satisfied. The researchers hypothesized that this is because teams under higher pressure, regardless of the source, tend to deliberate less about important decisions and defer to the judgment of the members with the mostseniority.

The researchers' conclusion is thefollowing:

this is because teams under higher pressure, regardless of the source, tend to deliberate less about important decisions and defer to the judgment of the members with the mostseniority

To fully understand the conclusion, we must understand what the look-above marker "this" at the beginning of the conclusion refers to. Looking above in the passage, we see that "this" refers to the followingphenomenon:

[color=#0000ff] those teams feeling high levels of pressure to perform well for their clients tended to
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