The more you take the more you lose
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 06:00
in Psychology & Sociology
In everyday social exchanges, being mean to people has a lot more impact than being nice, research at the University of Chicago has shown. Feeling slighted can have a bigger difference on how a person responds than being the recipient of perceived generosity, even if the net value of the social transaction is the same, the research on reciprocity - giving and taking - shows...