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  2. Impression management - Wikipedia

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    Impression management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction. [1]

  3. Impression formation - Wikipedia

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    Free response is an experimental method frequently used in impression formation research. The participant (or perceiver) is presented with a stimulus (usually a short vignette or a list of personality descriptors such as assured, talkative, cold, etc.) and then instructed to briefly sketch his or her impressions of the type of person described.

  4. Social perception - Wikipedia

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    Social perception (or interpersonal perception) is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people as sovereign personalities. [1] Social perception refers to identifying and utilizing social cues to make judgments about social roles, rules, relationships, context, or the characteristics (e.g., trustworthiness) of others.

  5. Implicit personality theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, it is possible for a person to experience automatic thought processes, and for those processes occur without that person's intention or awareness of their occurrence. [6] In terms of impression formation, this means that an observer may perceive another person's behavior and automatically make trait inferences from that behavior ...

  6. Dramaturgy (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Impression management refers to work on maintaining the desired impression, and is composed of defensive and protective techniques. Protective techniques are used in order to cover mistakes, only once the interaction begins. For example, relying on audience to use tact and overlook mistakes of the performers.

  7. Breaching experiment - Wikipedia

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    In the fields of sociology and social psychology, a breaching experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine people's reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms. Breaching experiments are most commonly associated with ethnomethodology , and in particular the work of Harold Garfinkel .

  8. Sociological theory - Wikipedia

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    A sociological theory is a supposition that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective, [1]: 14 drawing connections between individual concepts in order to organize and substantiate sociological knowledge.

  9. Talk:Impression management - Wikipedia

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    The theory was easier to understand with the examples and specific examples in the sections The Media, The Internet, and so forth because I could see how this was being used in everyday life. Perhaps put a couple of examples earlier in the top of the Wikipedia sections so that we can relate to Impression Management sooner rather than later ...