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.

A 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.