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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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Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.

Justin Kruger, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1999 - 
TL;DR: Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability.
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Self-monitoring of expressive behavior.

Mark Snyder
- 01 Oct 1974 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a social psychological construct of self-monitoring (selfobservation and self-control guided by situational cues to social appropriateness) of expressive behavior and selfpresentation was proposed.
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Impression management: A literature review and two-component model.

Mark R. Leary, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1990 - 
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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The nature and function of self-esteem: Sociometer theory

Mark R. Leary, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: Self-esteem is a sociometer, essentially an internal monitor of the degree to which one is valued or devalued as a relational partner as mentioned in this paper, and is defined as a person's appraisal of his or her value.
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The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory

Jeff Greenberg, +2 more
TL;DR: A review of the research supporting the existence of a need for self-esteem can be found in this article, where a theory that accounts for this need and specifies the role it plays in a variety of phenomena including self-presentation is presented.