0 a fall in which a person lands on their bottom, especially for a humorous effect in a play, film, etc. --
Most of us get over the pratfalls of childhood.
At the end of the interview, a pratfall, or small blunder, was introduced in some tapes as the experimental condition, and omitted in others as the control condition.
The derogation toward an average confederate appears after the confederate commits the pratfall since humor allows the individuals to comfortably rate attractiveness more congruently with immediately felt (negative) emotions.
After a perceived incompetent individual commits a pratfall, the comparison between the observer and blunderer can cause mental discomfort, which may then results in lower likability ratings.
An incompetent individual that commits any pratfall (2,3) will have a decrease in liking, which increases with severity of blunder.
An individual with high self-esteem will prefer the non-pratfall, high competence individual over the pratfall committing competent individual.
In that first decade, the number of publishing pratfalls was barely exceeded by the will to learn from a bumpy start and keep the paper in print.
They were growing older, and could no longer perform pratfalls and physical comedy as they once had.
He was enough of a professional (and a trained acrobat) to complete the film, doing extreme pratfalls even while visibly impaired.
