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Empathy

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The ability to project oneself into another person’s point of view, so as to experience the other’s thoughts and feelings.

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Face

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socially approved identity that a communicator tries to present

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Face work

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Verbal and nonverbal behavior designed to create and maintain a communicator’s face and the face of others

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Impression management

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used by communicators to influence the way others view them

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Narrative

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The stories people create and use to make sense of their personal worlds

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Perceived self

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The person we believe ourselves to be in moments of candor

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Perception check

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A three part method for verifying the accuracy of interpretations, including a description of the sense data, two possible interpretations, and a request for confirmation of the interpretations

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Personality

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A relatively consistent set of traits a person exhibits across a variety of situations.

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Presenting self

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The image a person presents to others. It may be identical to or different from the perceived and ideal selves

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Reflected appraisal

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The theory that a person’s self-concept matches the way the person believes others regard him or her.

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Self concept

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relative stable set if perceptions each individual holds of himself or herself.

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Self-esteem

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The part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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A prediction or expectation of an event that makes the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been that case

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Self-serving bias

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The tendency to interpret and explain information in a way that casts the perceiver in the most favorable manner

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Significant other

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person whose opinion is important enough to affect one’s self-concept strongly.

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Sympathy

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Compassion for another’s situation