Lets say that your drive to be liked by your manager makes you express X more support for his ideas, or express X less arguments against them. Then the person w

Lets say that your drive to be liked by your manager makes you express X more support for his ideas, or express X less arguments against them. Then the person with a more supportive base line will still appear more supportive even after this motivation adjustment. You can work around this by just being better than your peers at manipulating feelings, but it is still a handicap.