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Published online 4 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030630-8
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Copycat waitresses get bigger tips
Mimicked diners are more generous to staff and others.
Waitresses who copy their customers' behaviour get substantially bigger tips than those who don't, Dutch psychologists have discovered1.
"Mimicry creates bonds between people - it induces a sense of 'we-ness'," says Rick van Baaren of the University of Nijmegen.
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