Langer et al. (1978) found that if an experimenter approaches people with a request with no justifiable reason, they often respond

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Langer et al. (1978) conducted experiments demonstrating that people often comply with requests even when no real reason is given, a phenomenon they described as "mindless compliance." This showed that the mere structure of a request, even without a justifiable reason, can lead to compliance.

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