In a Canadian shopping centre, a mitten or a box of condoms was accidentally dropped in front of 80 individual members of the public. The dropper was helped to retrieve his object by 43% of 30 people who saw the mitten but only by 17% of 30 people who saw the condoms. This replicates Edwards' 1975 report that the rate of helping was lower for an embarrassing than for a neutral object.
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