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Why It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask & How We Determine Who and What is Beautiful

Something You Should Know

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Asking Strangers for Crazy Things

The contexts of the things that are sort of normative to ask friends and strangers are definitely different. In one study, we came up witha thi task of asking people to vandalize library books. People in those cases were much more likely to agree to this request than our participants tend to tend to think that they would be. So you're right that there's certain requests that don't really make sense. But at the same time, i think the sort of sphere of things that we can ask people for and that they would say yes to is probably bigger than many of us think.

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