Why People Often Hide Their Successes and Share Their Failures

Source: PsyPostPeople often adjust what they share about their own achievements or setbacks based on what their conversation partner has just revealed. New research suggests that these choices are driven less by a desire to manage one's own image and more by an intention to protect other people's feelings. This goal leads people to share mutual failures far more often than mutual successes, according to a report in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision...