What If You Had 500 Charisma?

Would you take it? Play this episode's round of the What If Card Game free → https://whatifgame.site/d11 What if you had 500 charisma? You throw a dodgeball straight through the gym window, and Principal Hale, who has never smiled in her life, is already filling out your detention slip. You ask about her fish. Twenty minutes later, the window was nobody's fault, and you walk out with the keys to the vending machine. Most people have about ten charisma. You have five hundred. At first it's amazing. Mom says yes to a dog after six years of no. The pop quiz turns open-book. The kid who's taken your hat since fourth grade starts carrying your backpack to the bus. The mayor builds a skatepark with your name on it, the governor lets you steer his helicopter, and an envelope comes on White House paper: the President wants to meet you. Then you find out nobody can say no to you. Not even when they want to. Everyone who has ever met you loves you. You just can't name one person who'd still like you if they had a choice. Would you take it? Play this episode's round of the What If Card Game free → https://whatifgame.site/d11 What's the first thing you'd ask for? Tell us in the comments. Is any of this real? The science in this episode: - People make up their minds about a new face in about a tenth of a second. Judgments of trustworthiness, likeability and competence made after a 100-millisecond look were close to the ones made with no time limit; more time mostly made people more confident. Willis & Todorov (2006), "First impressions: Making up your mind after a 100-ms exposure to a face", Psychological Science 17(7). - Students guessed they'd have to ask about 11 strangers before 3 agreed to write the word "pickle" in pen in a library book. On average they needed about 5, and 87% of them underestimated how many people would say yes. Bohns, Roghanizad & Xu (2014), "Underestimating our influence over others' unethical behavior and decisions", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 40(3). - After talking for the first time, people think the other person liked them less than they really did. Five studies, from strangers in a lab to college dorm mates. Boothby, Cooney, Sandstrom & Clark (2018), "The liking gap in conversations: Do people like us more than we think?", Psychological Science 29(11). - The White House Easter Egg Roll draws tens of thousands of people: more than 30,000 in 2011, and about 40,000 in 2024, according to the White House. AP (2011, 2024). #whatif #animation #charisma