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Scandalous Romance Down Under: Becoming and Unbecoming a Heroine in The Bachelor/ette Australia and The Bachelorette New Zealand

Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2023
This paper examines how scandal functions to determine “appropriate behaviour” for women participating in the Bachelor/ette format. Based on Adut’s (2005) three key components of a scandal—the violation, the reaction, and the subsequent discredit—we ...
Jodi McAlister, Rebecca Trelease
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Sales and Sincerity: The Role of Relational Framing in Word-of-Mouth Marketing [PDF]

In the current research, we study relationship norms in a word-of-mouth marketing context. The presence of a financial incentive for a recommendation implies that the word-of-mouth behavior may be driven by ulterior motives.
Smidts, A., Tuk, M.A., Verlegh, P.W.J., Wigboldus, D.H.J.   +3 more
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Michel Houellebecq : return of the sincerity of the novelistic testimony and the 'new romanticism'

Études romanes de Brno
This article examines the trend towards the new sincerity and authenticity of novelistic testimony and the controversial recourse to romanticism in the novels of contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq (* 1956).
Marianna Uherková
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The literary kiss: gestures of subterfuge [PDF]

, 2013
A complex, polyvalent phenomenon, the kiss, once embedded in a literary text, is first and foremost a cipher to be decoded. Texts effectively expose its many-sidedness: not merely its potentially seductive power or ostensible expression of affection, but,
Erastus-Obilo, Bethel
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Language Styles, Recovery Strategies and Users’ Willingness to Forgive in Generative Artificial Intelligence Service Recovery: A Mixed Study

Systems
As the prevalence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the service sector continues to grow, the impact of the language style and recovery strategies utilized during service failures remains insufficiently explored.
Dong Lv, Rui Sun, Qiuhua Zhu, Yue Cheng, Rongrong Wang, Shukun Qin   +5 more
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A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore's Paradox [PDF]

Moore’s paradox, the infamous felt bizarreness of sincerely uttering something of the form “I believe grass is green, but it ain’t”—has attracted a lot of attention since its original discovery (Moore 1942). It is often taken to be a paradox of belief—in
Woods, Jack
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Living your Best Life and Radiating Positivity: Exploratory Conceptions of Wholesome Memes as The New Sincerity

, 2020
Roger Chabot, Yimin Chen
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Sincerity in Simple and Complex Voting Mechanisms [PDF]

We discuss sincere voting when voters have cardinal preferences over alternatives. We interpret sincerity as opposed to strategic voting, and thus define sincerity as the optimal behavior when conditions to vote strategically diminish.
Miguel Ángel Ballester Oyarzun, Pedro Rey Biel   +1 more
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The Unitarian Connection and Ricardo's Scientific Style [PDF]

, 2002
We reply to Philippe Depoortère’s paper “On Ricardo’s method: The Unitarian influence examined. Some comments on Cremaschi and Dascal’s article ‘Malthus and Ricardo on Economic Methodology’”.
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello, Dascal, Marcelo   +1 more
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They Broke Bread with Sincere Hearts

Lateral
This article discusses everyday acts of resistance through two stories of bread in competitive gymnastics through the lens of infrapolitics and hidden transcripts. The author discusses how the culture of elite competitive gymnastics sometimes makes it difficult to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate methods of coaching and care—often ...
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