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social currency that costs nothing to give and everything to fake.
means To express warm approval or admiration of someone or something, often out loud and often deserved.
from From Old French 'preisier,' to value or set a price on, which traces back to Late Latin 'pretiare,' from 'pretium' — price, worth, reward. So 'praise' and 'price' are twins separated at birth: one paid in coin, the other in compliments. The same Latin root also gave us 'precious' and, fittingly, 'appraise.' To praise something was originally, quite literally, to appraise it — to declare what it was worth.
- brain chemistry
- Compliments light up the same reward center as cash
- sandwich myth
- Burying criticism in praise fools almost nobody
- latin root
- From 'pretium,' meaning price or value
- public danger
- Specific praise motivates; vague flattery breeds suspicion
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