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'Affective Presence': How You Make Other People Feel - The Atlantic

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People with positive “affective presence” are easy to be around and oil the gears of social interactions.

Some people can walk into a room and instantly put everyone at ease. Others seem to make teeth clench and eyes roll no matter what they do. A small body of psychology research supports the idea that the way a person tends to make others feel is a consistent and measurable part of his personality. Researchers call it “affective presence.” This concept was first described nearly 10 years ago in a study by Noah Eisenkraft and Hillary Anger Elfenbein . They put business-school students into groups, had them enroll in all the same classes for a semester, and do every group project together. Then th

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