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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"dissimulation"”.
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The Technique of Dissimulation in Anton Ulrich's 'Octavia: Roemische Geschichte'
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The Mask of Dissimulation: Eustace Chapuys and Early Modern Diplomatic Technique, 1536--1545
"This thesis focuses on the second half of Eustace Chapuys's embassy in England, particularly the years between 1536 and 1545 for three reasons. First, many historians have focused on diplomatic history of Henrician England up to 1536 because of the ""Divorce Crisis,"" Henry's ultimately failed …
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Techniques for identifying dissimulation of the managerial potential scale of the California psychological inventory
In order to compare the effectiveness of four dissimulation detection techniques, a revised and shortened version of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was administered to 12E college students under three instructional sets. Honest, fake good, and fake bad instructional sets were used in …
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Développement de la compréhension de la dissimulation des émotions chez les enfants d'âge scolaire
… le développement de la compréhension de la dissimulation émotionnelle au cours de l'enfance. Le premier objectif est d'examiner le développement de la justesse et de la complexité du raisonnement des enfants lorsqu'ils doivent expliquer les raisons pour lesquelles une personne dissimule son …
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Sixteenth Century Morisco Devotional Manuscripts in their Mediterranean Contexts
… the presence of communities less interested in dissimulation and far more focused on 'normative' Islamic beliefs and practices. Also, these works reveal religious interests, shared not only by the Moriscos, but also other confessional communities in the wider early modern Mediterranean. I argue …
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Rethinking the social: from society to zones of social making
… ambivalence, alienation, simulation and dissimulation. This thesis argues that our understanding of this ground of social activity, based on a simplistic model of reflexivity and skill, is not at a detailed enough level of analytic resolution to warrant these claims. However, in …
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Comparing Implicit and Explicit Measures of Sex Guilt in Predicting Sexual Behavior
… on explicit measures, however, are influenced by dissimulation and social desirability, especially when assessing socially sensitive domains such as sexual attitudes. The present study hypothesized that adding implicit sex guilt as a second predictor to the Mosher Sex Guilt Inventory would …
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Picturing Wonderland: Filming Fantasy in Adaptations of Carroll's Alice Stories
… alongside the twin principles of simulation and dissimulation, as outlined by Wally Smith, in order to explain how the fantastic can be encoded into cinematic special effects. I then examine how Jan Švankmajer, in his 1988 film Alice, utilizes the effects of puppetry and stop-motion animation in …
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The ‘truth about Ebola’: Insecure epistemologies in post-outbreak Forest Guinea
… chapters foreground the controversies, dissimulation practices, fear, and cynicism that the quest for epidemic origins elicits locally, even as it contributes to imposing a single narrative for disease causality. In so doing, I challenge a social science view that scientific claims …
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Suetonius and the Politics of Private Life
… of his politics; and since authenticity and dissimulation were hot topics in the discourse of the post-Domitianic period, Suetonius’ literary technique also has political implications. In short, my thesis argues that Suetonius’ focus on the emperor’s ‘private life’ is not a rejection of …
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An Examination of Test-Taking Attitudes and Response Distortion on a Personality Test
This study examined test-taking attitudes and response distortion on a personality test. Consistent with our hypotheses, applicants were found to have significantly more positive test-taking attitudes and exhibit a greater degree of response distortion as compared to incumbents. In addition, …
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'The reader and I are making faces': W. S. Graham's Management
… verse is puzzled with instances of pronominal dissimulation, dissolution, and vanishing acts, it becomes hard to gauge his exact (and exacting) presence. The final part of the chapter discusses the trouble this causes for editing texts that tread such fine lines between control and release. …