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The SCARF model involves five domains of human social experience: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. - Status is about where you are in relation to others around you. - Certainty concerns being able to predict the future. - Autonomy provides a sense of control over events. - Relatedness is a sense of safety with others, of friend rather than foe. - Fairness is a perception of impartial and just exchanges between people.

Use the SCARF Model to Understand Our Individual Triggers

US Department of Health and Human Services

The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample time to remember and analyze your past words and decisions – more time than you, in fact, and a stronger incentive. And so their mental model of you is often much better than your own.

People Can Read Their Manager's Mind

yosefk.com

It’s also silly when the moral terms of our engagement with other people are set for us by the discourse, whatever that is. And, I mean, on my less generous days, I go with it just like anyone else. The same as ordering a Lyft or ordering a hamburger because I don’t want to cook. The convenience of our moment recreated in not just our art but also our human discourse and human congress.

Massachusetts Holy Ghost - By Brandon - Sweater Weather

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