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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.
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Pardon my gaffe: Effects of sex, status, and consequence severity on accounts.
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of offender sex, offender status, and consequence severity on accounts following an embarrassing predicament were examined. Subjects were induced to believe they had committed a gaffe with either relatively mild or severe consequences for a confederate/victim of either higher or lower status than they, and their verbal and nonverbal behaviors captured on videotape served as the source of dependent variable measures
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The Search for Beauty and Truth: A Framework for Understanding Reactions to Evaluations
TL;DR: The authors proposed that independent desires for positivity and verisimilitude shape the sequence of cognitive operations people perform on self-relevant evaluations, and that if sufficient motivation and cognitive resources are available, people proceed to phase 2, wherein they evaluate the verisimilarity of the evaluation by comparing it with a series of representations of self; beginning with their actual selves.
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Explaining Our Sins: Factors Influencing Offender Accounts and Anticipated Victim Responses
TL;DR: This paper examined the effects of offender blameworthiness, consequence severity, and offender gender on written accounts provided after a hypothetical predicament and found that although concessionary strategies were the most prevalent overall, they were more prevalent for more blameworthy offenses than less blameeworthy offenses.
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Rudeness at 911 Reconceptualizing Face and Face Attack
Karen Tracy,Sarah J. Tracy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed two telephone calls from citizens to a 911 center in a large city in the Western United States in which call-takers became angry and attacked the face of the callers.