[foinker]

The event is the attempt at the promotion. That the outcome was failure doesn't make it a 'non-event', and I think this is what the study is kind of getting at. Men mentally reconfigure these things into ways that protect our ego and/or status, whether we realize we're doing it or not. Maybe they chose that one over yours because getting fired is too difficult to not disclose. Your friends and dependents would certainly notice you've stopped going to work lol

[maerF0x0]

Yeah i can now see your reading of my comment. By "Non event" i meant the absence of an event. not that it's non-impactful. I guess the difference is objective measure of "did a thing occur?" vs the subjective "Did the thing I wanted/expected occur?" (my usage of non-event being the former) .