This high school photographer conducted a social experiment to capture the reaction to a simple and wonderful compliment. The results were beautiful.
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The National Institute for Physiological Sciences says that compliments activate the same area of the brain that we experience when we’re given money.
“To the brain, receiving a compliment is as much a social reward as being rewarded money. We’ve been able to find scientific proof that a person performs better when they receive a social reward after completing an exercise. There seems to be scientific validity behind the message ‘praise to encourage improvement’. Complimenting someone could become an easy and effective strategy to use in the classroom and during rehabilitation.”
Complimenting another person costs us nothing and yet has such a great impact on others. Have you told someone today how beautiful, how smart, how wonderful, or how important they are?
