The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin¶
Franklin, B. (1964). The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Yale University Press.
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- Ben Franklin Effect
- The effect is named for Benjamin Franklin's account in his Autobiography of disarming a political rival
This sourceThe Autobiography gives Franklin's own account of winning over an Assembly rival by borrowing a book; it does not say that the effect is named after this account. Franklin’s statement of the maxim that one who has once done you a kindness will be readier to do you another than one you have yourself obliged, drawn from the borrowed-book episode.
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- The effect is named for Benjamin Franklin's account in his Autobiography of disarming a political rival
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