User talk:CarlaHav99

Context and effectiveness
Backhanded compliments are most commonly used in work settings or in general everyday life and function to deliver feedback. The person that gives the backhanded compliment wants signal their status as superior but also wants to be liked. In reality most of the time the recipient feels different about these backhanded compliments. The backhanded compliment triggers a social comparison and a perceived lower status in the person, who receives it. What also makes them ineffective, is that the receiver may feel offended and experience negative emotions. Another point to highlight the ineffectiveness of backhanded compliments is that they can reduce the motivation in the person receiving it, because they harm the perception of for example a competence and the person would focus less on the compliment itself but more on the comparison.