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Face (sociological concept)
About: Face (sociological concept) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5171 publications have been published within this topic receiving 96109 citations. The topic is also known as: Lose face & Face (sociological concept).
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TL;DR: In this paper, a measure of implicit theories of academic interests was developed to examine how such theories influence students' decisions to retain or change their majors, finding that those who believed that they were not doing well in their majors were more likely to choose a new major than were all other groups.
Abstract: Students can believe that their academic interests are fixed (entity theory) or malleable (incremental theory). A measure of implicit theories of academic interests was developed to examine how such theories influence students’ decisions to retain or change their majors. As hypothesized, entity theorists who believed that they were not doing well in their majors were more likely to choose a new major than were all other groups. This result is consistent with previous findings that entity theorists tend to give up in the face of adversity.
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors points out that many people live a multimodal life, where they juggle Facebook, Twitter, calling, texting, e-mailing, and meeting face-to-face.
Abstract: Without question, many people live relentlessly multimodal lives. To maintain our interpersonal relationships, we juggle Facebook, Twitter, calling, texting, e-mailing, and, of course, meeting face...
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