Summary Neatly and sloppily dressed female confederates (Cs) approached 62 male and 62 female Ss at Boston's Logan Airport and made the following request: “Excuse me. Could you lend me a dime?” Significantly more Ss gave dimes to neatly rather than sloppily dressed Cs (81% vs. 32%) and significantly more males gave dimes than females (64% vs. 50%).
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Chris L. Kleinke (1977) studied this question.
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