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Apr 9, 2021 · Summary. If receiving a compliment makes you uncomfortable, you aren’t alone. Around 70% of people in a survey associated feelings of embarrassment and discomfort with praise.
- Compliments and Self-Esteem
- The Challenge of Complimenting Relationship Partners with Low Self-Esteem
- Compliments and Culture
- How to Increase Receptiveness to Compliments
More often than not, our receptivity to compliments is a reflection of our self-esteemand deep feelings of self-worth. Specifically, compliments can make people with low self-esteem feel uncomfortable because they contradict their own self-views. People actively seek to verify their own perceptions of themselves, whether those are positive or negat...
The resistance people with low self-esteem have to compliments can be especially pronounced when the praise comes from their relationship partners. One study found that giving people with low self-esteem praise for being considerate boyfriends or girlfriends was enough to make them feel more insecure about their partners and even view their entire ...
The correlation between low self-esteem and resistance to compliments should not be over-interpreted. People with low self-esteem are often uncomfortable receiving compliments, but not everyone who is uncomfortable receiving compliments necessarily has low self-esteem. Praise has a large cultural and ideological component. For example, it is much m...
It is possible to increase a person’s receptiveness to praise even if their self-esteem is low. One study found that asking people with low self-esteem to reframe a compliment from their partner in abstract terms and discuss what it meant to them and what significance it had in their relationship allowed them to accept the compliment and feel more ...
Sep 14, 2021 · Research shows that compliments often make the receivers feel better than most people anticipate. Compliments also improve the mood of the compliment giver. People may want to explore becoming ...
Jun 20, 2016 · 2. Your Self-Image Doesn't Line Up. Another reason compliments can feel uncomfortable is because the words you hear don't line up with the way you see yourself. Referred to as cognitive dissonance ...
Specifically, compliments can make people with low self-esteem feel uncomfortable because they contradict their own self-views. People actively seek to verify their own perceptions of themselves ...
Jul 27, 2021 · Giving compliments makes us anxious, but new research shows that praising people has huge benefits – for both parties. “The happy phrasing of a compliment,” the writer Mark Twain once noted ...
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Compliments can provoke anxiety in people with low self-esteem, because the compliments challenge their self-views and make them feel misunderstood. The fear of being evaluated negatively is also ...
