The “Benjamin Franklin effect”: why doing someone a favour makes you like them more, not less

Many of us assume warmth comes first. You like someone, so you help them. The kindness follows the affection, in that order. The Benjamin Franklin effect runs the sequence backwards: do someone a favour, and you may come to like them more, not less. The act appears to generate the feeling rather than the other [...] The post The “Benjamin Franklin effect”: why doing someone a favour makes you like them more, not less appeared first on Space Daily .