Samuel started a new job today and was invited to join some of his co-workers out for a drink after work. In an effort to win his new colleagues over, he offered to buy the first round and cracked many jokes. Samuel is using which impression management strategy?

Impression management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction.

There are many different strategies we can use while trying to impact the views of others. The most common impression management strategies include ingratiation, intimidation, supplication, self-promotion and exemplification.

Ingratiation - The term ingratiation refers to behaviors that a person illicitly enacts to make others like him or her or think well of his or her qualities as a person. ... A second strategy is do favors or to help or assist a person.

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Answer:

ingratiation

Explanation:

Impression management refers to how all individuals (including ourselves) try to create, defend or enhance certain social identities by using actions that hopefully will make others believe that we are certain type of person. E.g. some people pretend to be nice people when they are actually unpleasant or really bad people.

There are five basic impression management strategies that people generally do to impact the views of others or create that impression of being a certain way:

ingratiation: actions taken by individuals try to appear to be more likeable or better people, better colleagues, classmates, friends, etc.
intimidation
supplication
self-promotion
exemplification