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I sometimes wonder if people have become more resistant to critique or if uninvited critique has become more common. But early twentieth century books like How to Win Friends and Influence People emphasise that people respond well to positive reinforcement, which makes me suspect that people have long given unsolicited criticism and long been annoyed by it.

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Sure if your goal is to get something from a person then you should use another tactic. People have always had egos and taken criticism personally. Often it becomes an argument. But those arguments can still be very good for everyone else in the field to hear and for research progress.

In this article the problem was the new "weapons" people have created by which the person being criticized can automatically win that argument based on emotion basically.

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