{"id":6826,"date":"2021-02-04T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","slug":"the-importance-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6826","title":{"rendered":"THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a recent podcast, author Robert Cialdini described a French social experiment involving a young man and a whole lot of female shoppers who did not know they were part of psychological research. The young man&#8217;s job was to record his success rate for his direct approach to the ladies roaming a shopping mall: &#8220;Excuse me, can I have your phone number so that I can call you later for a date?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All over the mall, this approach garnered a phone number 13.5% of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the researchers discovered there was one particular place in this mall where his success rate shot up to 24%. Nearly double!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where was a young lady browsing who was twice as likely as others to give a handsome stranger her phone number?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A flower shop.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers concluded that the presence of flowers predisposed a woman to thoughts of romance. So when a young man approached and requested her number, she was much more open to taking a chance than if he had approached her while she was shopping for shoes or enjoying an overpriced pretzel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point is that our environments exert much more influence over us than we are aware of,\u00a0often in extremely subtle but powerful ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cialdini now has me contemplating this fact and its implications for the appearance of my classroom. Are there ways for my room to predispose students toward learning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent podcast, author Robert Cialdini described a French social experiment involving a young man and a whole lot of female shoppers who did not know they were part of psychological research. The young man&#8217;s job was to record his success rate for his direct approach to the ladies roaming a shopping mall: &#8220;Excuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}