Here’s How to Brag Without Making People Hate You
Source: Time
Think twice before you brag about your accomplishments — and if you do, you better have the goods to back it up, a new study suggests.
The research, which was published recently in the journal Self and Identity, found that people respond better to modest individuals than to braggarts. When people did boast, the study found that their self-promotions were received better by others if they were supported by evidence.
“If you want to present yourself in a positive way and talk about your accolades, then it’s really helpful to have external information or some sort of objective corroboration of how good you are at something,” says study co-author Erin O’Mara, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Dayton. And according to the findings of the study, people will like you even more “if you undersell yourself a little bit and describe yourself in a modest way.”
Categories: Behaviour, Psychology, The Muslim Times