Giving gifts
Good cheap gifts:
- A box of 200 earplugs
- A Leatherman Squirt / Micra
- A book the person is likely to read and enjoy, like How To Get Rich or Lone Survivor
- Paracord
- 2016.11.08 - WashPo - The bad things that happen to annoyingly happy people4
- Researchers at New York University, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania recently performed a series of studies on the perception of extremely happy people and concluded that they are often assumed to be pushovers.
- The experiments suggest that very happy people are perceived positively in several ways. They were thought to be as likeable as and even warmer than moderately happy people. However, they were also widely considered to be naive.
- The researchers used several experiments to explore why this might be. They found that their test subjects assumed, rightly or wrongly, that very happy people maintained their positive outlook either by not processing information deeply, or by sheltering themselves from negative information in the world. And because of these beliefs, people were more likely to try to cheat those who seem very happy, the research showed.
- According to the researchers, their conclusions are all about magnitude. Appearing moderately happy definitely greases the wheels of social interaction, but too much happiness may lead to a less favorable perception.
Honesty
John T Reed on honesty [part-way down the page]:
http://johntreed.com/headline/2011/01/3 ... c-figures/
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