10 Things To Know About That Friend Who Won’t Stop Bragging
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Jazmine Denise
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They don’t recognize that their bragging has adverse effects
At their core, boastful people just want to be liked and accepted. Sadly, they often fail to realize that their braggy ways tend to have an adverse effect and end up turning people off.
“Most people realize that they experience emotions other than pure joy when they are on the receiving end of other people’s self-promotion,” said Irene Scopelliti, a behavioral scientist at the City University London in England, who co-authored a study about braggers published in the journal Psychological Science. “But when we ourselves engage in self-promotion — either on social media or in-person — we tend to overestimate people’s positive reactions, and we underestimate their negative reactions.”
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