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| the process of attaching meaning |
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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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| the attitude that one's own culture is superior to others |
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| the socially approved identity that a communicator tries to present |
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| vebral and nonverbal behavior designed to create and maintain a comminucator's face and the face of others |
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| strategies used by communicators to influence the way others view them |
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| the perceptual process of attaching meaning to stimuli that have previously been selected and organized |
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| the stories people create and use to make sense of their personal worlds |
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| the perceptual process of organizing stimuli into patterns |
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| the person we believe ourselves to be in moments of candor; it may be identical with or different from the presenting and ideal selves |
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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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| the image a person presents to others; it may be identical of different from the perceived and ideal selves |
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| the influence of others on one's self-concept |
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| the perceptual act of attending to some stimuli in the environment and ignoring others |
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| the relatively stable set of perceptions each individual holds of himself or herself |
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| the part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth |
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| Self-Fullfilling 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 the case |
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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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| a person whose opinion is important enough to affect one's self-concept strongly |
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| the perceptual process of applying exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system |
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| compassion for another's situation |
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