I feel that you’ve used Scoring Points in two distinct ways.
In the first, you are scoring points with an imaginary judge. Perhaps you are doing it so that people will support you later when you tell them what happened, but a lot of the time it is just so that you feel justified in your actions.
In the second, you are saying things that you know will impress the audience. The idea is to leverage social pressure against the person so that they have to agree with you or to just gain social status.
I’m not sure whether these distinct circumstances should be combined in a single term.
I feel that you’ve used Scoring Points in two distinct ways.
In the first, you are scoring points with an imaginary judge. Perhaps you are doing it so that people will support you later when you tell them what happened, but a lot of the time it is just so that you feel justified in your actions.
In the second, you are saying things that you know will impress the audience. The idea is to leverage social pressure against the person so that they have to agree with you or to just gain social status.
I’m not sure whether these distinct circumstances should be combined in a single term.