In a research study conducted by Ellen Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, the word "because" plays an important role in the differentiation of the result in a sequence of different experiments that she conducted. In the study, the word "because" did not need to be particularly meaningful, but just by including the word after a sentence being formed improves the intended result of the experiment. For instance, if you see a man on the street tapping you on the shoulder and say: "Can I borrow your phone for a while?" Your first reaction would be somewhat apprehensive at a glance because you don't know what this person is up to or why you should be lending your phone to a stranger on the street that you are not acquainted with. But what if the man added in something like this. "Can I borrow your phone for a while, because my phone's battery is flat?"...