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    bombmaniac
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    …when a person will take on the traits, mannerisms, and Idiosyncrasies of the person he’s interacting with just to please them or to make them more comfortable by pretending hes one of them?

    #714586
    WIY
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    Insecure?

    #714587
    tzippi
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    Are you thinking of a sycophant? (And there’s only one p in the word.)

    #714588
    bombmaniac
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    no no no i mean a person who does this with every single person they meet

    #714589
    popa_bar_abba
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    Sycophant? Is that a crazy elephant?

    #714590
    WolfishMusings
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    Social chameleon?

    The Wolf

    #714591
    ronrsr
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    annoying.

    #714592
    AinOhdMilvado
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    a “zelig” (hamayveen yaveen)

    #714593
    bombmaniac
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    good one wolf 🙂 i just needed a good way of phrasing it for something im working on…

    #714594
    Health
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    Some sort of personality disorder -probably Dependent or possibly Borderline. Definitely needs to go to a shrink for diagnosis and treatment.

    #714595
    smartcookie
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    A Weirdo

    #714596
    HaLeiVi
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    I think most people do it, albeit subtly. Watch the eyes of a crowd when they are listening to a vivacious person relate a story in a very animated way. Their eyes open wide with his and their jaws drop when his does. Also, friends seem to pick up each other’s laugh.

    #714597

    wannabe

    #714599

    I would call it conforming.

    #714600
    A23
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    It’s called mirroring.

    #714601
    oomis
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    It’s called MIRRORING.

    #714603
    usbaers
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    cornelia otis skinner wrote about the difficulties of having this habit (compulsion?) in one of her autobiographical books, either “the ape in me” (1959) or “that’s me all over” (1948) but i don’t remember if she used any particular term to describe it.

    #714604
    bombmaniac
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    There we go! thanks A23 and oomis 😀

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