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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Sincerity"”.
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Trust in direct leader and employee outcomes: the moderating effects of leaders’ perceived emotional sincerity
Emotional sincerity, an emerging construct in the trust in leadership literature, refers to the congruence between emotions internally experienced and externally expressed. With regard to attribution theory, observers (employees) can use the emotional expressions of others (supervisors) as an …
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Fabulous Khoisan:the politics of apoliticality in the indigenous Khoisan revivalism movement in South Africa; an exploration of sincerity,stickiness and fabulation in the emergence of a missing people
… identity navigate intersections of cultural sincerity, political disengagement, and social justice. The work highlights the emergence of a resilient and marginalised “missing people.” whose identities are continuously shaped through historical struggles and contemporary aspirations. Rejecting …
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The effects on indices of insincerity on Black listeners' evaluations of White speakers.
… was to investigate the effects of indices of insincerity on listeners' evaluation of speakers' sincerity. The experimental group listened to a recorded speech containing indices of insincerity. The control group listened to the same speech from which the indices of insincerity had been deleted. …
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Towards a Politics of the Sacred: Georges Bataille in Interwar France
… this work has attempted to demonstrate the sincerity (while also emphasizing the impracticality) of Bataille's political agenda. It is the contention of this work that Bataille's politics appear incomprehensible or parenthetical to his philosophy only when his critique of the autonomous …
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The Individual after Stalin: Fedor Abramov, Russian Intellectuals, and the Revitalization of Soviet Socialism, 1953-1962
… of personality. A new emphasis was placed on sincerity and the individual; and not only on fashioning the future, but also on understanding the details of the past and present. Among writers, a new importance was allotted to the diary, which was conceptualized as a space of sincerity, and as a …
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The influence of perceived brand personality of social media on users' attitude motivations and behaviour
… is represented by two traits: excitement and sincerity. The Facebook model fit indices are as follows: __2 = 1298.658; d.__ = 510; p = .000; NFI = .846; IFI = .901; TLI = .890; CFI = 900, RMSEA = 0.066 PCLOSE (.000) The brand personality of LinkedIn is represented by two traits: competence and …
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Affectionate expression in marriage: An ethnocultural and socioeconomic comparison
… spouses feel unloved and question their mate’s sincerity, they perceived of their relationships as being “rocky,” their mates unhappy, and they felt a general sense of unease. Findings also indicated that satisfaction with affectionate expression inversely affected considerations of divorce. …
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Constantine's Policy of Religious Tolerance: Was It Tolerant Or Not?
… his times and issues introduce the theme. The sincerity of Constantine's Christian belief and his relationship to the Church set the background of the debate, along with a look at three influences upon him, Eusebius of Caesarea, Ossius of Cordova, and Lactantius. Examining the atmosphere or …
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Selected Variables Related to Alienation from Religion as Perceived by Students Attending Seventh-day Adventist Academies In the United States
… of family harmony, lack of parental religious sincerity, failure to achieve emancipation from parents, and harsh parental discipline are all positively correlated with alienation from religion. Parental noncompliance with church standards is not significantly correlated with religious …
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Surveys
… are an exploration of notions of originality and sincerity, the picturesque, and process through the lens of the gridded western landscape. The perceived lawlessness and expansiveness of the American west is at odds with the desire to frame and compress. By superimposing a grid onto the images I …
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A Social Psychological Window into How Americans Think About First Amendment Religious Exemption Requests
… shapes Americans’ judgments about the religious sincerity of beliefs, whether denying exemption requests constitutes First Amendment violations, and whether exemptions should ultimately be granted. Collectively, results suggest that Americans hold strong schemas associating sincere religious …
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Common = Ineffective? A Replication Attempt of the Normative Dilution Effect in the Context of Apologies
… of apology commonness to reduced perceptions of sincerity. Across two samples of Australian participants (Ntotal = 1,087) and a sample of American participants (N = 314), I found no evidence supporting the normative dilution effect. When experimentally induced to perceive political apologies as …
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Envisioning Morality in Times of Dynastic Change
… their works with persistent human concerns about sincerity and moral correctness.
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Making Sense of Nonsense
<p>A paradox of simultaneous sincerity and humor, Making Sense of Nonsense attempts to identify deficient systems upon which we rely daily. Systems of logic, text, and visual language are all rife with flaws solely because their source--humankind--is irrevocably bound to error. This is not to say …
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The Relationship Between Self-Assessed Political Skill and the Individual Dispositional Factors of Age and Gender
… between age group 1 and age group 3 in apparent sincerity with age group 3 having a greater mean score. However, the effect size was small. • No significant differences were identified for the gender factor within each age group. • Small to medium effects were identified in favor of males in age …
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THE RULES OF THE GAME OF DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC DISCOURSE
… and uptake; (ii) the duty of accuracy and sincerity; (iii) the duty of civility.
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Constructing conscience: freedom and self-governance in colonial New England
… supposedly private and transcendent realm of “sincerity,” “faith,” and “experience,” kept separate from the contextual and temporal world of society and politics. Historians of American religion, and scholars of religion more broadly, have long taken this “interiority” rhetoric to be …
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Everything is awful : snark as ritualized social practice in online discourse
… of snark is to question their intentions, their sincerity, even the validity of their claims. Snark is often seen as destructive. Per the subtitle of critic David Denby's book on the matter, "it's mean, it's personal, and it's ruining our conversations."' In the following pages, I investigate the …
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The Restorative Justice Talking Circle Process with Probation Officers: A Phenomenological Approach
… from varied backgrounds meet with respect and sincerity to speak of, and listen to, differing perspectives.</p>
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Primary school supervision in Pakistan : practice, purpose and potential
… training to ensureeffective supervision. Instead,sincerity and respect emerge as key concepts ofparticular importance for sustaining professional endeavour. The resultssuggest that reforms of the selection and training of supervisory personnelare unlikely to influence practice permanently in …
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