User:Kim Kürzel/sandbox

Background
Compliments count as an important domain in social and professional life. They serve the social goal of being liked. People who are complimented perceive their counterpart in favorable light. Research suggests that compliments influences evaluation of job performance and lead to actual career success. One factor for the positive effects of compliments is self-enhancement, an emotional bias to promote positive self-views. While compliments increase likeability, compliments can be costly for another social goal. The social goal of status. Flatterers can be perceived as being relatively inferior to the recipient of the compliment. As well as liking, status influences many outcomes in social life. Increasing one`s status by highlighting superiority conflicts with the desire to be liked. Backhanded compliments are therefore often described as an impression management strategy. The compliment part serves the benefit of being liked, while the backhanded part has a status-conveying function.