Love your outfit! Great presentation! Cool glasses! When someone praises you, do you accept it? Or dismiss it?
Your reaction says a lot about how you feel about yourself, and it can affect how the other person feels too, say researchers.
Social psychologist and behavioral scientist explain the science of compliments 鈥� and make the case for accepting someone's kind remarks about you.
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