How reciprocity can work against you as a powerful force of influence

I’m in a bind of my own making, yet Robert Cialdini could have totally predicted this.

A friend at work and I went for “a quick drink” a few months back, which in London means that you spend the entire night getting drunk together, eat expensive bar snacks, and then find your own bleary-eyed way home to disparate parts of the city on the tube.

Our night looked a lot like this one | Photo by Jarritos Mexican Soda on Unsplash