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Self-Confidence and Survival [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
We consider the impact of history on the survival of a monopolist selling single units in discrete time periods, whose quality is learned slowly. If the seller learns her own quality at the same rate as customers, a sufficiently bad run of luck could induce her to stop selling. When she knows her quality, a good seller never stops selling. Furthermore,
Bar-Isaac, Heski
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Collective Self-Confidence:

2021
Organizer and historian Lane Windham chronicles three generations of African American women organizers in the seasonal tobacco industry in North Carolina. She finds a truism that social progress is never inevitable; it grows from collective efforts, and those collective efforts rarely succeed without mindful and careful organizing, something she first ...
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Self Confidence: Intrapersonal Strategies

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
This paper explains why people value self-confidence, and how this concern shapes their informational strategies and intertemporal decisions. The theory has applications in areas as diverse as labour supply, savings and investment, or education and career decisions.
Bénabou, Roland, Tirole, Jean
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Increasing Self-Confidence Through Self-Talk

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 1996
There are varied opinions on the commonness of self-talk. Some feel self-talk is engaged in more by persons who feel insecure and question their performance (Cauchon, 1994). Others feel self-talk is a process people use continually to describe and interpret the world, accurate or inadequate as the case may be.
R E, Davidhizar, R, Shearer
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Self-Confidences

1996
Abstract Most of us understand how a married person might come to recognize that she and her husband have grown apart, or not grown together, despite their good intentions and the seriousness with which they took their vows. And we understand how the situation might be experienced as sufficiently intolerable-for any variety of reasons ...
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Self-Confidence Genes?

Science, 2009
Brains alone don't make a star student. Motivation and self-confidence—what some psychologists call “self-perceived abilities” (SPAs)—are important, too. Now, psychologists report that not only IQ but SPAs as well are strongly influenced by genes.
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Concept analysis: confidence/self-confidence.

Nursing forum, 2012
Confidence and self-confidence are crucial practice elements in nursing education and practice. Nurse educators should have an understanding of the concept of confidence in order to assist in the accomplishment of nursing students and their learning of technical and nontechnical skills.
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