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Summary: Repel rude people by drawing boundaries and effectively communicating to a rude person that you will not put up with their behavior. Learn to end conversations with a rude person by using advice from a psychologist in this free video on rude people.
Reka Morvay is a Hungarian-American who received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from UC Berkeley and Cornell University, respectively. Her area of specialization was the biological...read more
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"Hi, my name is Reka Morvay, I'm a psychologist and I'm going to talk to you today about how to repel rude people. Now if you find that somebody is rude to you to the point where you want to be able to get out of that situation, the most simple thing, the simplest thing you can do is to explain your self saying I think that you're behaving rudely, I don't need this and just simply end the conversation and walk away. Sometimes it is not so easy to do this or maybe it's not so easy to this because you are the type of person who doesn't really like confrontation but this is a skill that's worst learning. How to nip these conversations in the bud because you really don't have to stay in a situation or stay in a conversation where the other person is being rude to you. You can tell them OK, let's talk about this some other time when you've calmed down or you can use basically any other line that signals that your limits have been overstepped and that you are now going to exit the situation. So repelling rude people is really just a matter of clearly drawing your boundaries and communicating them effectively to the person."
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