You call it self-exuberance and I call it bragging
Scopelliti, Loewenstein and Vosgerau, Psychological Science, 2015. People self-promote to be thought well of but project their own feelings onto audiences: they overestimate how proud or happy recipients will be and underestimate how annoyed they will be (experiments 1 and 2). Over-promotion often backfires, and targets see self-promoters as less likeable braggarts (experiment 3).
Scopelliti, Loewenstein and Vosgerau, Psychological Science, 2015. People self-promote to be thought well of but project their own feelings onto audiences: they overestimate how proud or happy recipients will be and underestimate how annoyed they will be (experiments 1 and 2). Over-promotion often backfires, and targets see self-promoters as less likeable braggarts (experiment 3).
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