reason respecting tendency
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Nov 18, 2025
Parrish: Providing even meaningless reasons significantly increases human compliance
“Reason respecting tendency is so strong that even meaningless or incoherent reasons will also increase compliance. Psychology experiments demonstrated this. People successfully jumped to the head of lines at copying machines Simply by explaining, I have to mak…”