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Tipping Habits And Their Demographic Information

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Are people who score higher on extraversion, politeness, and lower on narcissism more likely to tip their server a higher percentage than those who exhibit the opposite personality traits? This is the main question that we will focus on throughout this study. Broadly speaking, I want to know what factors about someone’s personality makes them tip their server more or less regardless of the type of service they receive. During the study, the participants will fill out a 41 question survey that measures politeness, extraversion, and narcissism and how these three factors affect tipping in restaurants as well as some subsequent questions about their tipping habits and their demographic information. The main research question for this study is not just important to myself, but to other servers as well. We as a whole find this to be important because we are curious if these factors actually play into the amount of money that we make, regardless of the service that we provide to our customer.
Upon looking into the topic of tipping, I was curious about what factors had already been studied and what correlations and findings were found in these different studies. I was able to find three different articles, all of which presented different stimuli to the customer and how that stimuli effected their tip percentage. The first article I read was “Effect of Server Introduction on Restaurant Tipping.” This article focusses on exactly what the title states—the effect of the server

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