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Being late predicts helping strangers, not moral self‑rating, study shows
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- Guess what correlation how people rated themselves in their essay had to do with the likelihood that they would stop and help [music] the person.
- And the reason I see this is so important is that right now, there are opportunities that come to you right now that you cannot even recognize because you do not have capacity to [music] do anything about it.
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0:00Unternehmer/Gast There was a study they did at Princeton grad school. It was called like the good good Samaritan study, where they had seminary students who saw themselves as moral people, right? They were studying to become priests. And they asked them to write a paper on being a good Samaritan, and then to present it. And so, what was interesting about this is that on the way to give the presentation, there was this very narrow hallway into the auditorium. And in the narrow hallway, they put someone who had fallen and clearly needed help. Group one was people who were 10 minutes late.
0:29Group two was people who were on time. And group three was people who were early. Guess what correlation how people rated themselves in their essay had to do with the likelihood that they would stop and help [music] the person. [ __ ] zero. You know what did have the highest correlation with the likelihood that they stopped and helped the person? How late they were. And the reason I see this is so important is that right now, there are opportunities that come to you right now that you cannot even recognize because you do not have capacity to [music] do anything about it.