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    Study Reveals Top Reasons Compliments Make Americans Feel Uncomfortable

    Study Reveals Top Reasons Compliments Make Americans Feel Uncomfortable

    Complimenting someone is an easy way to spread positivity, unfortunately, a lot of us aren’t great at receiving them.

    new study found receiving compliments is uncomfortable for 70% of Americans and it reveals why.

    Reasons Americans are uncomfortable receiving compliments:

    1. Dislike being the center of attention.

    2. Low self-esteem.

    3.  Fear of appearing arrogant.

    Key findings:

    • Mississippi, Louisiana and Washington are the best states at receiving compliments.
    • The top preferred compliment is kindness for women (20%) and intelligence for men (20%).
    • Almost half, 49%, feel the need to immediately return a compliment after receiving one which leads to no surprise that 41% also admit to giving compliments they don’t actually mean.
    • Millennials are most likely to give a compliment they don’t mean, followed by Gen Z, Gen X and then boomers.

    You can find out where Americans are the worst at getting and giving compliments here.

    1 Comment

    • snow rider
      October 13, 2024

      I total agree with your opinions in this post!

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