Every once in a long while, someone devises a new door-in-the-face technique. It has happened again: “Door-in-the-Face: Is It Really Necessary That Both Requests Be Made by the Same Requester?” Lohyd Terrier [pictured here], Bénédicte Marfaing, and Marc-Olivier Boldi, Psychological Reports, Volume 113, 2013, pp. 675-682. The authrs, at Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne and Université de […]
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Guilt and expected guilt in the door-in-the-face technique
Read about guilt and expected guilt in the door-in-the-face technique, if that’s what you want to read: “Guilt and expected guilt in the door-in-the-face technique,” Daniel J. O’Keefe, & Marianne Figgé, Communication Monographs, 66 (4), 1999, 312-324. BONUS: The two co-authors have an earlier take on the topic: O’Keefe, D. J. & Figgé, M. (1997). “A guilt-based explanation […]
Robots Ring the Doorbell
“Generally speaking, modeling the developmental trajectory for almost any intelligent task that a 2-year-old child can perform on a robot is a potential research topic for us.” – explains the website of the Developmental Robotics Lab at Iowa State University, US. As an example to help clarify the (somewhat ambiguous) statement above, see the lab’s […]