Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence
研究发现人们因担心显得无能而不愿寻求建议，但实际上寻求建议会让他人觉得你更有能力，尤其在任务困难、向自己或专家寻求时效果更强。
Although individuals can derive substantial benefits from exchanging information and ideas, many individuals are reluctant to seek advice from others. We find that people are reticent to seek advice for fear of appearing incompetent. This fear, however, is misplaced. We demonstrate that individuals perceive those who seek advice as more competent than those who do not. This effect is moderated by task difficulty, advisor egocentrism, and advisor expertise. Individuals perceive those who seek advice as more competent when the task is difficult rather than when it is easy, when people seek advice from them personally rather than when they seek advice from others and when people seek advice from experts rather than from nonexperts or not at all. This paper was accepted by Yuval Rottenstreich, judgment and decision making.