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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.

Erving Goffman
- 01 Aug 1955 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 3, pp 213-231
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This article is published in Psychiatry MMC.The article was published on 1955-08-01. It has received 2287 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Personality disorders.

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Self-Conscious Emotions in Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures: A Contrastive Linguistic Perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on linguistic and culture-bound aspects of the properties of individualism and collectivism through an English-Polish analysis of the emotions shame and guilt.
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Self-Protective yet Self-Defeating: The Paradox of Low Self-Esteem People's Self-Disclosures

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that people with low self-esteem exhibit an intriguing paradox in their self-disclosures, where despite their usual self-protectiveness and desire to be liked, LSEs express negativity, which other people do not like.
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Assumptions in Korean organizations and their implications in a cross-cultural setting

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TL;DR: In this paper, the significance of strong informal social ties (based on the unique social psychology of jeong, woori and nunchi) as cultural control in the Korean workplace was examined.
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Power, integrity, and mask – An attempt to disentangle the Chinese face concept

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors identify and explore three distinctive facets entangled in the Chinese face concept that are not fully apparent in Goffman's face conceptualization nor examined in the research on Chinese face: (1) power/favor/relation face, (2) moral/honor face and (3) mask/image face.