A compliment improves the mood of the recipient, but also of the person who pays it. — 123rf.com
Unexpectedly receiving a sincere compliment feels good, as everyone knows. It causes the brain to release so-called happiness hormones.
A felicitous compliment, in the words of psychologist Eva Wlodarek, is like a shot of espresso: spontaneous, brief and pleasing. She might have added that both are pick-me-ups.
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