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The Modern Wisdom of Playing Dumb
2021This chapter addresses contemporary interpretations of the art of not knowing. I start with the popularization and commercialization of the saying Nande hutu and discuss the different discursive elements deployed by Chinese people to explain its broad web of meanings.
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The Wisdom of Playing Dumb in Practice
2021This chapter deals with the practice of playing dumb in different domains of life such as health, family life, business and leadership positions, and officialdom and politics. In daily life, Chinese people from different walks of life pragmatically adopt the strategy of playing dumb according to their current living situation, daily concerns, age and ...
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The Dumb Waiter : Pinter's Play with the Audience
Modern Drama, 1981Published commentary on The Dumb Waiter is for the most part rather unsatisfactory. Instead of analyzing the playas Pinter wrote it, most commentators rely on distortions and fabrications -or, at best, conclusions based on guesswork -to concoct a new play of their own making.
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Playing Dumb and Knowing it All: Competitive Orientation and Impression Management Strategies
Individual Differences Research, 2009This study considered individual differences in competitive orientations (hypercompetition, competition avoidance, and personal development competition) as they relate to the use of two opposing self-presentational strategies, "playing dumb" and "knowing it all" (176 women, 156 men).
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The Psycho-Social Appeal of the Wisdom of Playing Dumb
2021This chapter discusses the psycho-social appeal of the wisdom of playing dumb in contemporary society. By referring to concrete examples of what the wisdom of playing dumb promises to realize, I show that playing dumb functions as a strategy to fulfil individual needs on different levels: the need to personally cope with modern life in all its ...
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Looking smart versus playing dumb in common-value auctions
Economic Theory, 2009zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Playing Dumb and Knowing It All: Two Sides of an Impression Management Coin
Individual Differences Research, 2006Two studies examined opposing self-presentational strategies for impression management — "playing dumb" and "knowing it all." In the first study, men (n = 120) reported greater use of both strategies than did women (n = 129), but there were no gender differences noted among personality correlates.
Thornton, Bill, PhD +3 more
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On Sex and the Psychology of “Playing Dumb”: A Reevaluation
Psychological Reports, 1978Questionnaire data, gathered from a varied sample of 142 male and 260 female subjects, were used to address two questions concerning the perception of sex roles and appropriateness of certain sex-related behavior: (1) Has the proportion of women who report that they “play dumb” changed over the past generation?
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Harold Pinter's Play The Dumb Waiter as a Dürrenmattian (Tragi)Comedy
2020The paper attempts to answer the question of whether Harold Pinter’s early play The Dumb Waiter (1957) can be analyzed through the perspective of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s theory of (tragi)comedy, explained in his 1954 essay “Problems of the Theatre.” It examines whether Pinter’s play contains elements such as inter alia, a conceit or idea (Einfall), a ...
Novak, Sonja, Spajić, Iris
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Harold Pinter's 'The Birthday Party' and 'The Dumb Waiter' As Absurd Plays
Amid life's inconsequential moments, meaning emerges—though at times, it hidesbeneath the illusion of meaninglessness. Such is the philosophy propounded by dramatists ofModern and Postmodern Literature, who went out of their way to resist traditional structures andstylistics in order to create a realist absurdism that does justice to the fragmented ...openaire +1 more source