Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you • Hacker News Board

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by Deukhoofd » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #5

paulcole wrote: post #3

Actual 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.

The actual content of the study just refers to logos for the clothing parts.

> The results showed that participants elected to co-operate with partners whose avatars had unbranded clothing 57% of the time, but when the avatar sported a luxury logo, this figure dropped to 45%.

> A second study, in which participants could first choose the design of their own avatar, found that those who chose branded rather than unbranded clothing themselves were still less likely to choose to co-operate with partners with brand-boasting vs logo-free avatars.

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by danielvaughn » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

blueflow wrote: post #2

Any 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.

I live in South Florida, a little bit above Miami, and work out of this little co-working space. A couple weeks ago, a new member joined, and after talking with him a bit, I learned that he had worked on the founding team for some very famous technology (don't want to name it publicly). So pretty impressive, but the guy is down to earth and humble about it, which I really respected.

Some other people in the space (non-technical people) thought it was weird that he wasn't more outspoken about his accomplishments, and they even went so far as to doubt that he was heavily involved.

As an introvert, to hear people dismiss someone on the basis of them not boasting about themselves really stuck with me. I just can't express how vulgar I find that viewpoint, and my opinion of the people who dismissed the guy has changed irrevocably.

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by flybrand » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

When I’m at work - in person or remote - the work uniform is plain and unremarkable.

If at a trade show, or big internal presentation, then some degree of ‘flair’ is helpful.

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by brookside » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

r12343a_19 wrote: post #10

I 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.

I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them.

Uniqlo

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by Tarsul » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

if I had the choice between cooperating with narcissists or with caring people, I'd also take the latter.

Often we don't have the choice.

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by bowsamic » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

I can't bring myself to bring off brand trainers for some reason, I think I've been propagandised

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by yieldcrv » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #5

paulcole wrote: post #3

Actual 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.

HN posting guidelines are also well-known amongst participants here, so people call out when a title breaks a guideline and breaks it for the specific reason the guideline exists for: reducing ambiguity.

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by throw78311 » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:06 PM UTC

Not surprised. The hot style right now is "authenticity" and typical high status clothing is associated with just the opposite of that.

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by pflenker » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:06 PM UTC

ly wrote: post #6

The 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…

The HN title is right, it's the article's title which is at odds with its contents.

Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

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Post by drewcoo » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:06 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #5

paulcole wrote: post #3

Actual 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.

The parent's point is that the title on HN should match the article's.