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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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Management Development in the Nanyang Chinese Societies of South‐east Asia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the distinctive contours of the processes of entrepreneurial and managerial development among the culturally similar Overseas (Nanyang) Chinese populations of South-east Asia.
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Confrontations and donations: encounters between homeless pet owners and the public.

TL;DR: Examining the interactions between homeless pet owners and the domiciled public with a focus on how the activities of pet ownership help construct positive personal identities finds donations of pet food from the supportive public provide the resources to minimize the impact of stigmatization.
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Individual differences in embarrassment: Self-consciousness, self-monitoring and embarrassibility

TL;DR: In this paper, the Self-consciousness Scale (SCS), Self-monitoring Scale (SMS) and the Embarrassibility Scale (ES) were administered to over 100 Ss.
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Tinker: a relational agent museum guide

TL;DR: A virtual museum guide agent that uses human relationship-building behaviors to engage museum visitors and indicates that the use of relational behavior leads to significantly greater engagement by museum visitors, measured by session length, number of sessions, and self-reported attitude.
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Being Friendly in Survey Interviews.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the devices through which survey interviewers construct a "personal interview style" and describes several types of interviewers' friendly reactions to respondents' assessable statements, and how interviewers may reformulate scripted questions in such a way that they include a preference for a "socially desirable" answer.