People Select Feedback to Flatter Others, Except When They Dislike Them. (www.asc.upenn.edu)
from Bee@mander.xyz to science@mander.xyz on 22 Mar 2025 07:02
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People generally try to make other people feel good about themselves, but not when they dislike them. That’s the finding of a new study by psychologists at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the extent to which people promote “positive self-views” for total strangers.

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Warl0k3@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2025 08:27 collapse

“People aren’t nice to people they don’t like.” Yep. Checks out.

I’m sure it’s important to have this quantified and similar, but man does this one feel obvious.

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 22 Mar 2025 12:16 collapse

I think the key takeaway here is that, by default, people are nice. Unless they happen to dislike their interlocutor.