This is one of the cases where you absolutely can't say "people" b/c there's a massive divide by sex *Women* don't like the idea that a man has developed learned charm because she is relying on instinctive social tests to assess mate quality and doesn't have any easy alternative
You can break it out into a matrix for looking at reactions to mechanical, practiced charm because it has different meanings for each of the possible pairs.
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I think there's truth to this when it comes to charm/flirting/dating, but there are other areas as well. People don't like it when something feels "fake" even if the criteria for being genuine are really wobbly.
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Plus I think people in general find the whole idea of mechanistic _explanations_ of social behaviour really icky. You're not even supposed to talk about the fact that there are incentives etc in play in stuff like friendship.
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