15 Psychological Tricks to Make People Like You Immediately

Compliment others

People will associate the adjectives you use to describe other people with your personality. This phenomenon is called “spontaneous trait transference.”

One study found that this effect occurred even when people knew certain traits didn’t describe the people who had talked about them.

“Whatever you say about other people influences how people see you,” says Gretchen Rubin, the author of “The Happiness Project.”

If you describe someone else as genuine and kind, people will also associate you with those qualities. The reverse is also true: If you are constantly trashing people behind their backs, your friends will start to associate the negative qualities with you as well.