The effect makes people 'not know crab soup cooked with jute vegetables' easily sympathized

The Pratfall effect explains why imperfection can make people more attractive and easier to embrace others.

The booming social network arguing around the video a female engineer in Hanoi had to ask for the first two questions in the "Who's a Millionaire" program because she didn't know about the El Nino phenomenon and the good vegetables. Cook with crab soup .

The female engineer must use help when answering questions about vegetables or cooking with crab soup.(Photo: YouTube).

Most comments criticized female engineers who were too lacking in knowledge, but there were also many people who expressed their opinion to protect the girl, saying that they should not criticize too much, and expressed sympathy for her. According to psychologists, this may be the result of psychological phenomenon called Pratfall Effect.

American psychologist Elliot Aronson was the one who discovered the effect of Pratfall , according to the Guardian. The Pratfall effect suggests that the attractiveness of an individual who is said to be good and perfect can increase significantly after making a mistake.

According to this theory, basically, people who never make mistakes are considered less attractive and less popular than those who sometimes make mistakes. Perfection creates distance and feeling that cannot be surpassed in the eyes of others. But when they make mistakes, they become closer and more affectionate to the majority.

Crab soup with jute vegetables.

Aronson performed the experiment by asking an actor to play a quick puzzle game. After showing a brilliant performance, correctly answering 92% of the question, the actor pretended to make a small mistake that spilled a cup of coffee on him.

The experimental tape was turned on for a group of students to volunteer to watch. Aronson divided the group of students into two chambers and showed them two different versions of the tape, one of which spilled coffee and one cut off. After that, he asked the students about their favorite level with the actor. The result is the more "clumsy" version of the actor .

This finding is repeated in a series of other experiments. For example, English psychologist Joanne Silvester found that in interviews, candidates admitted past mistakes often attract employers.

The rough cake on the left is preferred over the round cake on the right.(Photo: Thamer).

In the consumer psychology study of British media company ZenithOptimedia, investigators asked 626 people about two cookies to see which one they liked better. The two cakes are completely alike in composition, except for one with a rough, rough edge, while the other is perfectly round. More than 66% of respondents said they liked the cake with a more rugged edge. Small defects do not affect the appeal of the cake, but also make it more popular.

Therefore, psychologists believe that making silly mistakes is not always a disaster, it may be an opportunity for you to receive more sympathy from the majority.