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More Reasons To Be Nice: It’s Less Work For Everyone

March 10, 2011 by

A polite act shows respect. But a new study of a common etiquette-holding a door for someone-suggests that courtesy may have a more practical, though unconscious, shared motivation: to reduce the work for those involved. The research, by Joseph P. Santamaria and David A...

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