Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
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#2Any kind of self-promotion is unpleasant, except to other self-promoters. For them its competitive. And yes, this includes the virtue emojis on Twitter and GitHub.
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#3Actual article headline is, "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative." "Flashy" and "status clothes" are words/phrases that don't even appear in the article.
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#4The study is based on interactions between strangers on the internet - it doesn't necessarily indicate how this would play out in the real world.
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#5Actual article headline is, "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative." "Flashy" and "status clothes" are words/phrases that don't even appear in the article.
"status" is mentioned 17 times, including in the headline. "Flashy" being a synonym for "status" clothes is well-known.
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#6The article's title is "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative", and the title here on HN is absolutely wrong.
I like wearing flashy clothes myself, and I would even say it has proven advantageous to cooperation in my line of work, so I was curious about this article. However, nowhere is it stated that flashy clothes make people less likely to cooperate with you. They say wearing clothes with luxury logos and signal high status does.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#7Actual article headline is, "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative." "Flashy" and "status clothes" are words/phrases that don't even appear in the article.
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#8Any kind of self-promotion is unpleasant, except to other self-promoters. For them its competitive. And yes, this includes the virtue emojis on Twitter and GitHub.
What are examples of virtue emojis?
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#9a study of people putting status symbols on online avatars made them less likely to be cooperated with to perform menial tasks is what it actually says
“Science”
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#10I was having this talk the other day: I hate "high end" logo clothes and don't want to compete with people that showcase their logo clothes.
The average clothing store is decent enough for me. I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them. Just plain material and colors.