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Embarrassment, facework, and eye contact: Testing a theory of embarrassment.

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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1971-01-01. It has received 183 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Embarrassment & Face negotiation theory.

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Impression management: A literature review and two-component model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a 2-component model within which the literature regarding impression management is reviewed, which conceptualizes impression management as being composed of two discrete processes, i.e., impression motivation and impression construction.
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Social anxiety and self-presentation: A conceptualization model.

TL;DR: A self-presentation approach to the study of social anxiety is presented that proposes that social anxiety arises when people are motivated to make a preferred impression on real or imagined audiences but doubt they will do so, and thus perceive or imagine unsatisfactory evaluative reactions from subjectively important audiences.
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Gaze and eye contact: A research review.

TL;DR: Research on gaze and eye contact was organized within the framework of Patterson's (1982) sequential functional model of nonverbal exchange to show how gaze functions to provide information, regulate interaction, express intimacy, and exercise social control.
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Signs of appeasement: evidence for the distinct displays of embarrassment, amusement, and shame

TL;DR: According to appeasement hypotheses, embarrassment should have a distinct nonverbal display that is more readily perceived when displayed by individuals from lower status groups as mentioned in this paper, and the evidence from 5 studies supported these two claims.
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Embarrassment: its distinct form and appeasement functions.

TL;DR: The evidence indicates that the antecedents, experience, and display of embarrassment, and to a limited extent its autonomic physiology, are distinct from shame, guilt, and amusement and share the dynamic, temporal characteristics of emotion.
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A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgment.

TL;DR: Several modifications of the Asch experiment in which the S judges the length of lines in the company of a group of “stooges” who carry out the experimenter's instructions are described.
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On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on some of the qualities peculiar to psychological experiments and point out that the demand characteristics perceived in any particular experiment will vary with the sophistication, intelligence, and previous experience of each experimental subject.
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Studies of independence and conformity: I. A minority of one against a unanimous majority.

TL;DR: In this article, the conditions of independence and lack of independence in the face of group pressure were investigated, and a disagreement between a group and one individual member about a clear and simple issue of fact.
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Eye-contact, distance and affiliation.

TL;DR: It is postulated that eye-contact is linked to affiliative motivation, and that approach and avoidance forces produce an equilibrium level of physical proximity, eyecontact and other aspects of intimacy.