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"The difficulty [accepting compliments] is caused by the lack of experience receiving compliments as well as a diminished self-esteem," says Dr. Brett Biller, Psy.D., the director of the Mental ...
For starters, accepting a compliment in your mind is hard enough, but responding to it is even trickier. Growing up, if you’re taught to be humble and avoid seeming self-centered, you may brush ...
Complimentary language and gender. Complimentary language is a speech act that caters to positive face needs. Positive face, according to Brown and Levinson, is "the positive consistent self-image or 'personality' (crucially including the desire that this self-image be appreciated and approved of) claimed by interactions". [1]
Many of us feel awkward accepting compliments—we might blush, avert eye contact, start mumbling in embarrassment, or even disparage ourselves. If that’s you, remember how good the person ...
Politeness theory, proposed by Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson, centers on the notion of politeness, construed as efforts to redress the affronts to a person's self-esteems or face (as in "save face" or "lose face") in social interactions. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Notable concepts include positive and negative face, the face threatening act ...
Joyce Robertson. Joyce Robertson (27 March 1919 – 12 April 2013) was a British psychiatric social worker, child behavioural researcher, childcare pioneer and pacifist, who was most notable for changing attitudes to the societally acceptable, institutionalised care and hospitalisation of young children, that was prevalent. [1]
Unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard, a concept initially developed by Stanley Standal in 1954, [1] later expanded and popularized by the humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers in 1956, is the basic acceptance and support of a person regardless of what the person says or does, especially in the context of client-centred ...
Cheryl Reeve hears it too. When a woman stands up for herself, when she demands to be treated equally and doesn’t tolerate nonsense or disrespect, she’s often described as “difficult ...