What kind of mentality is showing off?

The motivation of showing off is very complicated, and the behavior of showing off may be dominated by single motivation or multiple motives.

1. Show your advantages. For example, male peacock feathers are exaggerated, which is not good for survival at all. The only advantage is to attract the opposite sex. Because the opposite sex thinks that peacocks with exaggerated and dazzling feathers inherit excellent health, their babies will have a greater chance of being born and growing up healthily.

2. Meet the missing needs. There are many studies on consumer psychology. For example, it is found that the poorer people are, the more they like to buy luxury goods to alleviate their inferiority complex caused by poverty. For another example, subjects who deliberately lower their evaluation will be more inclined to buy luxury goods.