If you need to ask someone for a favor, what's the best way to do it?
SAN FRANCISCO -- What is the best way to ask for a favor? In person? Email? Maybe on social media?
On Facebook, 7 On Your Side's Michael Finney asked what is the best way to approach someone when you need help. There were plenty of opinions."In Person,""Text,""Phone call,""Online chat." You can make a case for all of those, but know this: most of the answers are wrong. In one study researchers found participants really didn't understand the process.
"So their intuition was actually... that all of those different ways of asking would essentially be the same amount of effective, so they'd get a 'yes' basically just as often using one medium as another, but what we found was that, that really was not the case," says Professor Vanessa Bohns.You Have More Influence Than You Think."80% of the ones who asked face-to-face got a yes, so asking face-to-face was incredibly effective," Bohns says.
"Yeah I think that's true," Bohns says."I think people find it really hard to say no in person and so they're more likely to say OK."Take a look at more stories and videos by
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