Exploring Body Comparison Tendencies: Women Are Self-Critical Whereas Men Are Self-Hopeful [PDF]
, 2012 Our study examined similarities and differences in women’s and men’s comparison tendencies and perfection beliefs when evaluating their face, body shape, and physical abilities, as well as how these tendencies and beliefs relate to their body esteem ...
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Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis study investigated the use of politeness strategies in the interactions between bodaboda riders and their clients in Mbooni Sub-County, Makueni, Kenya. A qualitative research approach, utilizing purposive sampling, was employed.
Faith Mbithe Kathukya +2 more
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An experimental test of the effects of online and face-to-face feedback on self-esteem
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2017 This study investigated the effect of receiving confirming vs. disconfirming feedback to individuals’ self-disclosure on their self-esteem, the role of giving reciprocal feedback in this relationship, and how these effects differ between online and face-
Helen G. M. Vossen +2 more
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Non-negative Representation Based Discriminative Dictionary Learning for Face Recognition [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, we propose a non-negative representation based discriminative dictionary learning algorithm (NRDL) for multicategory face classification. In contrast to traditional dictionary learning methods, NRDL investigates the use of non-negative representation (NR), which contributes to learning discriminative dictionary atoms.
Chen, Zhe, Wu, Xiao-Jun, Kittler, Josef
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The perceived social impacts of the 2006 World Cup on Munich residents [PDF]
, 2006 All major sporting events result in a variety of impacts upon the host community. To date, the majority of existing studies have focused upon the wider economic impacts, with few empirical studies of the social impacts upon local residents.
Jones, Ian +2 more
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How to Handle Face-Saving in the Chinese Church Through Servant-Leadership
, 2017 Excerpt: Leaders unknowingly functioning out of face-saving, the tendency to try to protect ones standing or reputation or to avoid losing some aspect of these, have a negative impact on organizational leadership. The purpose of this paper is to discuss
Song, JiYing
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“I See You Have Been Convicted Of A Felony; Can You Tell Me About That?” Workforce Development Challenges for Restorative Citizens Seeking Employment [PDF]
, 2020 Incarceration has been an issue nationwide in the United States for decades due to policies from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s that lead to mass increases in incarceration.
Hinton, Terrance
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Recent studies have demonstrated that face perception is influenced by emotional contextual information. However, because facial expressions are routinely decoded and understood during social communication, sociality should also be considered—that is, it
Mengsi Xu +4 more
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Does Twitter Create Similar Patterns of Positivity/Negativity as Face-to-Face Word-of-Mouth? [PDF]
, 2011 Word-of-mouth communication is important to organizations because it is a free form of advertising and has been shown to be influential on consumers’ purchasing decisions.
Jones, Nicholis
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Politeness Strategies Used in the Iranian and American Newspapers: The Case of Iran's Nuclear Deal
Research in English Language PedagogyThe appropriate employment of language by politicians can settle many of the current global problems and crises. Iran’s nuclear deal with all its complexities and subtleties is one of the most contentious global issues that demands a lot of tact and ...
Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur +1 more
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