“Likable” is outlined by the Oxford Dictionary as “nice, pleasant, and straightforward to love,” and that is what you are going to get with a likable individual. In line with psychotherapist Babita Spinelli, L.P., likable individuals are additionally multifaceted people with open minds and a nicely of empathy.

“They are typically people who’re open-minded and create an area the place folks really feel comfy to be themselves. They’ve a capability to create a no-judgment expertise,” she explains. And licensed marriage and household therapist Shane Birkel, LMFT, echoes this level as nicely, noting that likable folks have excessive emotional intelligence and know methods to work together nicely with others, thus inviting others in.

And whereas all of us might have private preferences in what we like in folks, these foundational features are what we usually affiliate with likability.