If compliments make you feel super awkward, this comic is for you
Love your outfit! Great presentation! Cool glasses! When someone praises you, do you accept it? Or dismiss it?
Your reaction says a lot about how you feel about yourself, and it can affect how the other person feels too, say researchers.
Social psychologist Erica Boothby and behavioral scientist Xuan Zhao explain the science of compliments — and make the case for accepting someone’s kind remarks about you.
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