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People pleasing develops as an insecure attachment strategy learned from being valued only for submissiveness.

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  1. Adam Grant

    Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School

    People pleasing is based on insecure attachment. We become people pleasers when we discover that others only value us when we're cooperative to the point of being submissive and deferential.

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