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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Self-serving"”.
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The Catastrophic Position of the Judenräte: Self-Serving Collaborators or Honorable Martyrs?
<p>During the Holocaust, the Nazis appointed a select group of Jewish leaders to carry out their demands and orders throughout the ghettos of Eastern Europe. These influential men made up the Judenrate. From the beginning of the ghettos until their tragic demise, these Jewish leaders were …
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The narcissistic teammate: effects of narcissistic subtypes on self-serving attributional biases
<p>"The self-serving attributional bias in collaborative group efforts is the tendency for individuals to take more personal responsibility for the group's success and less personal responsibility for the group's failure. Much previous research has linked narcissism with self-serving behavior. …
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Actor-Observer Differences in Attributions for Success and Failure: Self-Serving Biases or Information Processing Mechanisms
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Assessment of portion sizes and consumption of fruit and vegetables among Icelandic children in a school canteen with semi self-serving
… much of it they eat and b) if consumption and self-serving portions of fruit and vegetables are proportionally in balance with protein-rich foods and carbohydrate-rich foods on the plate, according to recommendations. Methods: The study was conducted in an elementary school in Reykjavík, in …
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The Actor's Self Serving Bias: An Exploration of Various Acting Techniques in the Creation of the Role of Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa
In psychology, the self-serving bias refers to a person's tendency to claim responsibility for his or her successes rather than failures. In acting, it takes on new meaning. The study of acting requires that the student use any source that will lead to his or her growth. The bias refers to this …
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Reacting to negative self-relevant information in an interpersonal context
… three experiments to examine the impact self-construal, feedback source and interpersonal contexts have on one’s reactions to negative self-relevant information. In these experiments, characteristics of contexts including audience’s status, audience’s standard, audience’s performance and …
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A Mixed Method Approach to Collegiate Aviation Self-Assessment of G-Load on Landing: Pilot Perception Versus Reality
… of vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive cues. Self-assessment of these cues helps pilots determine if the landing should be considered a hard landing. Self-assessments are subjective and depending upon metacognitive level, a pilot may fall prey to self-serving bias. To determine if self-serving …
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Internal and External Attributions by Managers in Earnings Conference Calls
<p>In this study, I examine whether managers make self-serving attributions by internally (externally) attributing favorable (unfavorable) performance or demonstrate leadership by accepting blame and deflecting praise when communicating with analysts and investors. After validating the attribution …
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Cultural study of Attributions of Sports Fans
… have the tendency to engage in the self-serving bias, whereas collectivists may not engage in this process (Schuster et, al, 1989; Lee et. al, 1996; Hallahan et. al, 1997; Crittendon, 1991). Undergraduate students at La Sierra University, California, participated in an experiment …
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Lies in the dark: An analysis of dark personality traits and dishonesty
… what specific types of lies (e.g., altruistic, self-serving, and vindictive) are common among individuals exhibiting dark traits. Though some studies have explored how different categories of lying correspond to different personality traits, dark traits were not included in the analyses (Hart et …
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Power, Likeability, and Perception: Evaluating Men and Women in High and Low Power Positions
… high power individuals' propensity toward self-serving behaviors (Chen, Lee-Chai, & Bargh, 2001). Neither gender nor power significantly predicted self-serving behaviors. The second study asked participants to evaluate an ostensible participant from the first study. Here it was predicted …
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When You Are Blue, Less Is True: The Impact of Affect on Validity Judgments
… The implications of these findings for self-serving judgments and for processing fluency phenomena are discussed.
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City knowledge : an emergent information infrastructure for sustainable urban maintenance, management and planning
… plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders unexpected plan-demanding situations, where the ability to conduct second-order analyses leads to …
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America is Banking on You! Selling American Ideology During World War II
… the public eye. Ultimately the paper exposes the self-serving nature of these American War advtisements and their impact upon visual culture.</p>
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Calpurnius Siculus: Exploring pastoral en route to the city
… to counter criticism that Calpurnius was a self-serving career poet. The contradictions of the locus amoenus are an important theme of the collection and are discussed in the light of the difficulty surrounding interpretations of Calpurnius’ Eclogues.
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
… granted in treaties. Exposing this slippery and self-serving legal categorization, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor target an audience with an American understanding of exclusive racial categories whereas Beatrice Culleton, Joan Crate, and Thomas King …
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Are All Good Soldiers Created Equal? Examining The "Why" That Underlies Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Development of an OCB Motives Scale
… to exploration of both altruistic as well as self-serving motives to engage in OCB. Applying Schwartz's (1992) values theory and expanding on Rioux and Penner's (2001) three-dimensional OCB motives model, the goal of the proposed research was to identify additional underlying mechanisms for …
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Do Managers Manipulate Employee Labor Costs to Meet Firm- and Executive-Level Targets?
… suggesting that managers are, on average, not as self-serving as they are sometimes portrayed.
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Personalized and Socialized Need for Power: Scale Construction and Validation
… indicate a high desire to influence others for self-serving means. Conversely, high scores on socialized nPower indicate a high desire to influence others for prosocial, other-serving means. Study 1 focused on item generation and content validation with SMEs. Study 2 focused on refining the …
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