2 For example, he used assistants who attempted to break into lines at a post office, some cordially smiling and others rudely assertive, to see how patrons responded. See A. Mehrabian and J. A. Russell, An Approach to Environmental Psychology (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974).

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