Want to make people around you happy? Here are simple things that cause happiness, but that we don’t do enough as we wrongly think they will be awkward & not appreciated. 🧵 🙏🏻People appreciate gratitude MUCH more than the giver expects & it is less awkward to give than expected https://t.co/81SXtS3PVO

There is a whole set of recent papers showing how we overestimate the awkwardness & underestimate the rewards (and not just to ourselves!) of social interactions like: 🙏Expressing gratitude 💬Engaging in deep conversations 🤝Providing partial help, rather than solving a problem https://t.co/XEipLgQgAW

Compliments increase the well-being of both expressers and recipients, yet in a series of surveys people report giving fewer compliments than they should give, or would like to give. Nine experiments suggest that a reluctance to express genuine compliments partly stems from underestimating the positive impact that compliments will have on... See more