Human psychology is such an interesting topic... A male actor approached 65 strangers at a train station on a rainy day to ask to borrow their mobile phone. For half of them he preceded his request with the superfluous apology: Im sorry about the rain! The other half of the time he just came straight out with his request: Can I borrow your cell phone? The superfluous apology made a big difference. 47% of strangers offered their phone when the actor apologised for the rain first, compared with just 9% when there was no apology.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:58:46 +0000
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