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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Flirting"”.
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Flirting as a Liminal Experience: A Dialogue between a Philosophical-Phenomenological Understanding of Liminality and an Empirical-Existential Study of Flirting
… out concealed aspects of the lived experience of flirting by studying it neither as a subjective act nor as an objective behavior, but as a liminal event. Liminality is an anthropological concept that designates a realm of experience that falls outside identity and mutually exclusive binaries. I …
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Internet boundaries for social networking: impact of trust and satisfaction
… and Account Access) and Fidelity (2 items: No Flirting and No Former Partners). Findings suggest that couples in long-term committed relationships have boundaries or rules for social networking. Furthermore, trusting one’s partner, but not relationship satisfaction, contributes to behaviors …
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Aggressive mating strategies in young adolescent girls
… humans begin utilizing mating strategies (e.g., flirting, fighting or rumor spreading about competitors) to attract and keep mates. Consistent empirical evidence shows that some adolescent boys are on a developmental pathway in which they utilize aggression and risky behaviors in their mating …
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Speech, Sex, and Social Norms
… (Chapter 2), shaming (Chapter 3), and flirting (Chapter 4). In Chapter 5 I reflect on how our models of speech bear on issues of autonomy and power, manifested in differing roles assigned to ‘uptake’. Each essay is self-contained, but taken together they present a picture of how speech …
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Pick-Up lines: To Use a Neg or a Flippant?
… strategies, mate value, attractiveness, and flirting strategies, a pattern of behaviors and reactions may be observed. This study examines perceived pick-up line appropriateness and effectiveness when the attractiveness of the man delivering them varies. To test the effectiveness of 2 …
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Who's Afraid of Female Pleasure?
… of pushing and pulling; exposing and layering; flirting between visibility in the sensual physical body as the body medium of film. My work expresses the human experience; the body carries a language and performs; acceding to desire and pleasure. My intent is to create an erotic intervention in …
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Exhibition, Featuring
… with poems riding the edge of reality, flirting with the absurd. The poems use imagery to explore the unknown and unthinkable. In each stanza, lyrical language mediates reality and invention. The poems are interested in discovering place, time, and history, and understanding how every …
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MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: A CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF SELECT HISPANIC FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH ACADEMIC RACIAL BIAS AT A 4-YEAR TEXAS UNIVERSITY
… act or what to believe, being falsely accused of flirting, and that their experiences with racial biases were dismissed. Of the 10 offenders, four were professors, four were other students, one was a university staff member, and one was a community member. By gender, the offenders were six males …
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Demand-Withdraw in the Marital Context of Depression
… tone) and indirect demands (e.g., use of flirting, whining, or nagging tone) after they received a sad MIP, but depressive symptoms were not related to these behaviours when there was no MIP. Interestingly, depressive symptoms were positively correlated with low-level negative demands …
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Peer Sexual Harassment in Middle School: Classroom and Individual Factors
… behaviors) and sexual saliency variables (i.e., flirting, dating and opposite sex nominations). Moreover, this is the first study that has used classroom demographic factors (i.e., percent male and class size) to predict PSH. Thus, the current cross-sectional study adds to the literature by …
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Dylan Thomas and the experiences of reading
… and self-definition in a new light, as Thomas flirting with potential poetic futures. Chapters two considers Thomas in relation to British surrealism. Thomas’s surrealism has hovered as a perennial accusation or suspicion, a problem which few have been able to satisfyingly solve. I centre …
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Sexuality Workplace Issues Among Direct Service Personnel Working With Populations Who Are Intellectually Disabled In Community Integrated Living Arrangements: A Case Study
… under affectionate behaviors were dating, flirting, friendship/socialization, holding hands/hugging, media/technology, and problematic behaviors. Common categories under sexuality behaviors were groping, masturbation/females, masturbation/males, and problematic behaviors. Less common …
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Attributions of Negative Intent and Responsibility and Anger Arousal of Abusive and Nonabusive Males to Perceived Negative Dating Partner Behavior
… males to highly provocative (e.g., girlfriend is flirting with another man) or minimally provocative (e.g., girlfriend wants to talk) partner behavior. A major hypothesis was that abusive males would attribute greater negative intent and responsibility as well as evidence greater blood pressure …