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PLATE IX Maggie Daley Park, January. One cup, given.
NOTE 08 · CHAPTER II
A small favor, a bigger day
HABITAT Neighborhoods, workplaces, parks
In Chicago’s Maggie Daley Park, people who gave a stranger a cup of hot chocolate expected it to lift the stranger’s mood a little. It lifted it a lot more.20 Givers judged the drink; receivers felt the gesture. In a lab version, people who had just received a kindness went on to be more generous to someone else.20
ALSO OBSERVED
The held door, the neighbor’s shoveled walk — and how far they travel.
SOURCES 20Kumar & Epley 2022 →
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