{"id":409,"date":"2023-10-20T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-06-21T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:39:59","slug":"can-a-joke-on-a-card-increase-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/can-a-joke-on-a-card-increase-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Joke on a Card Increase Tips?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a wait person you probably are concerned about the tips that you receive from customers. &nbsp;The tips you receive may greatly help you pay the bills.&nbsp;Your earnings from the job may seem much more reasonable with the tips you receive. &nbsp;Is there a way to increase tips? &nbsp;&nbsp;One simple way may be to&nbsp;leave a joke on a card with the bill. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Gueguen (2002) conducted a study that involved tipping at a bar. &nbsp;Each person in the study was randomly assigned to one of three conditions. &nbsp;In the advertisement card condition, the customers received an advertisement on a card with their coffee and bill. &nbsp;In the joke card condition, the customers received a joke on a card with their coffee and bill. &nbsp;&nbsp;In the control condition, the customers did not receive a card.<br><br>Gueguen found that a higher percentage of customers gave a tip in the joke card condition than in the other two conditions. &nbsp;In contrast, the difference between the advertisement card condition and the control condition with respect to the percentage of people tipping was not statistically significant.<br><br>These findings clearly indicate that humor may increase tips. &nbsp;Providing a joke on a card with the bill may be a simple way to increase tips.<br><br>One possible explanation of the effect of humor on tipping is that it reflects the reciprocity principle. &nbsp;The reciprocity principle suggests that we should help someone who helps us. &nbsp;Providing a joke on a card can be viewed as helping the customer. &nbsp;It may make the person more happy and cheerful.  The customer may wish to reciprocate the expression of kindness by providing a tip.<br><br><strong>References<br><br><\/strong>Gueguen, N. &nbsp;(2002). &nbsp;The effects of a joke on tipping when it is delivered a the same time as the bill. &nbsp;<em>Journal of Applied Social Psychology<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>32<\/em>, 1955-1963. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell If you are a wait person you probably are concerned about the tips that you receive from customers. &nbsp;The tips you receive may greatly help you pay the bills.&nbsp;Your earnings from the job may seem much more reasonable with the tips you receive. &nbsp;Is there a way to increase tips? &nbsp;&nbsp;One simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/can-a-joke-on-a-card-increase-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can a Joke on a Card Increase Tips?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helping-behavior","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}