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From: Quartz

Researchers confirm that Americans who always say that they’re “busy” are actually seen as more important

Quartz:

“How are you?”

“Oh, you know, busy, busy.”

So goes a very common conversation in the US. But why, wondered researchers at Columbia and Harvard universities, is everyone suddenly humble-bragging about how busy they are? Just 100 years ago, bragging about leisure, not about how much you work, was a signal of importance and wealth.

In a series of experiments, the results of which will be published in an upcoming paper, researchers tested whether signaling “busyness” changes people’s social status.

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