Professor Alison Wood Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Knock, knock.
I don't know.
You're like, I don't know, my panic.
So yeah, I'm going to flatter them, crack jokes, be very attentive, get their name right, ask them about their grandchild.
I think I used to put girls off when I was 11 because I used to ask them like the meaning of life too quickly on my mother's stolen Nokia phone.
And so they would stop texting back.
So I think I learned early that like some people just don't.
And is that where relationships are built?
Deep ones?
So you're saying I should ask more questions?
Okay, well, ask more than they're asking me.
What happens to the fate of zero question askers?
According to the data?
Really?
Significantly less.
What is me asking more questions doing to the other person?
So give me an example of asking a great follow-up question.
We're on a date.
And then I would say, really?
Oh, my God.