# How does receiving praise make you feel?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 13, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-receiving-praise-make-you-feel/571248 "2011-02-13T21:48:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-receiving-praise-make-you-feel/571248/26 "2011-02-15T10:15:24Z")

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Usually the praise I get is thinly masked sarcasm or insults. For some reason, I am always surrounded by passive aggressive people who think they’re so intelligent (or everyone else is so stupid) they can get away with it.

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