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Posting Date: July 09, 2003
 

Copycat waitresses get bigger tips (Nature) -- "But this is just one of a battery of ploys that waiting staff can use to increase customers' generosity. Other studies have shown that smiling, greeting and touching the customer, and crouching down beside them while taking orders also lead to bigger tips." (Comments: Waiters and waitresses don't realize that they are constantly doing sales. Making money for these folks is more about selling than serving.)

 

  

Reader Comments...
 

How about the ones that are actors? ;)

"The experiment is the first to show that mimicry has concrete benefits, van Baaren claims, although many understand its benefits implicitly."

That's got to be mistake by the article's author. No one with van Baaren's credentials would make such an obvious error. Don't they still teach it in Intro to Psychology?

Posted by: Ron Zeno on July 10, 2003 03:25 PM


 

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