Bragging, boasting, showing off or just plain talking...do you know it when you see it?

It turns out when or why you say something can be interpreted as bragging instead of merely what you say or how you say it.

Nurit Tal-Or performed his research with college students, evaluating the interactions between two people discussing how they did on a test. While Tal-Or has published his findings in Social Influence, he doesn't have a book to brag...tell you about, yet.