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Humble-bragging, counter-signalling, and impression management (with Övül Sezer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Humility in Bagging
There's a way of talking about that that I think comes across as like seeming like you're impressed with yourself. And then there's another way where it just feels like you're just listing a series of events in your life kind of neutrally. Mixing it could be a good strategy because when the recipient is cognitively busy as they say in the paper, it just means if there's so many things going on, let's say there's like so many facts you need to process, then the bragging attempt doesn't seem like a bragging attempt. There's actually fascinating research on the emotion of pride because apparently we have two types of pride. One is authentic pride and the other is
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