Sentences with phrase «original giver of the gift»

Additionally, we may fear that the original giver of the gift would be offended.

The results showed that regifters thought the original giver of a gift should have some say in what was done with an unwanted gift, whereas original givers were less likely to feel this level of investment.

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This meets my question's original criteria of a gift giver paying for stock without having any of the recipient's personal information and thus maintaining the gift's surprise.

In a later study, participants (again in the roles of original giver and potential regifter) imagined that the gift was either regifted or thrown away.

Using both hypothetical and actual scenarios, a group of researchers explored the taboo of regifting in a series of five studies to see how original givers (the ones who gave the gift first) and regifters (the ones regifting a gift) felt about regifting.1 In the first study, participants were asked to imagine that they were either (1) the original giver (who gave a gift to a friend that was subsequently regifted) or (2) the regifter (who received a gift and decided to give it to a second recipient).

A third study had trios of friends regift predetermined «bad gifts» (e.g., a magazine for retired people, a weight - loss cookbook, a DVD about Mandy Moore's life) in a laboratory setting, with each friend rating how much input the original giver should have in what the regifter did with the gift.