Are you pretty or ugly? Are you smart or stupid? Are you successful or failing? Do you have high status or low status? Causing someone to internalize the later

Are you pretty or ugly? Are you smart or stupid? Are you successful or failing? Do you have high status or low status? Causing someone to internalize the later rather than the former could certainly lead them to enjoy a product while I have simultaneously ’manufactured’ a ‘need’ where there was/is none.