Love your outfit! Nice presentation! Cool glasses! When somebody praises you, do you settle for it? Or dismiss it?
Your response says loads about how you’re feeling about your self, and it may possibly have an effect on how the opposite individual feels too, say researchers.
Social psychologist Erica Boothby and behavioral scientist Xuan Zhao clarify the science of compliments — and make the case for accepting somebody’s variety remarks about you.
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