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Jiayou in Standard Mandarin or Gayau in Cantonese (Chinese: 加油) is a ubiquitous Chinese expression of encouragement and support. The phrase is commonly used at sporting events and competitions by groups as a rallying cheer and can also be used at a personal level as a motivating phrase to the partner in the conversation.
Effort justification is an idea and paradigm in social psychology stemming from Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance. [1] Effort justification is a person's tendency to attribute the value of an outcome they put effort into achieving as greater than the objective value of the outcome.
Norton, Mochon, and Ariely cited other researchers' previous work on "effort justification" which had demonstrated that the more effort someone put into something, the more someone will value it. This phenomenon had been observed by Leon Festinger (1957) and in realms ranging from psychotherapy (Axsom & Cooper, 1985) and brainwashing (Schein ...
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It is the ability of the courtier to display "an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the conscious effort that went into them". [3] Sprezzatura has also been described "as a form of defensive irony : the ability to disguise what one really desires, feels, thinks, and means or intends behind a mask of apparent reticence ...
Goal setting encourages participants to put in substantial effort over and above a "do your best condition". Also, because every member has defined expectations for their role, little room is left for inadequate, marginal effort to go unnoticed
With rates coming down in the wake of last year's three back-to-back Fed rate cuts, the new year is the best time to fast-track your finances to faster savings growth at today's highest rates on ...
In certain Western cultures, "parents put a lot of effort into teaching their children to be polite, to say 'thank you' or 'please' for every single favor done by anyone". [11] One method of imparting the habit of saying "please" is to respond to requests with an instruction like "say please", or a question like "what is the magic word?"