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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 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"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 5 points 23 hours ago

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