Reputation: why do we care so much about what other people think of us?

Reputation: why do we care so much about what other people think of us?

Ever made an absolute arse of yourself? It probably doesn’t feel great. We want other people to like us, to respect us, to think we’re cool or respect-worthy or whatever. We worry about how we came off in that conversation earlier – sometimes we cringe about it years later! We are, in short, very concerned with our reputation; what other people think of us. Why? Over millennia, evolution has shaped our genes and our bodies to help us survive and…