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  2. Please - Wikipedia

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    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?"

  3. Social loafing - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when working alone. [1] [2] It is seen as one of the main reasons groups are sometimes less productive than the combined performance of their members working as individuals.

  4. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Shoulder flick, using one's fingers to flick off an imaginary speck of dirt or dust on one'sshoulder. Denotes that the effort that was undertaken was hardly worth the trouble entailed. Shrug, lifting both shoulders indicates lack of knowledge or concern (🤷). Sometimes the gesture is a palms upwards from bent elbows motion with possible ...

  5. Effort justification - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 31 ...

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    You put the ball between he and I (formal) You put the ball between me and him (informal) As for the ordering of the above, you typically get the first person last in formal English due a politeness tendency and the first person first in informal English (because you dont need to be polite).

  7. Wikipedia:Put a little effort into it - Wikipedia

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    Articles have to grow over time to represent Wikipedia's best work. There's nothing wrong with just a stub. But if you're going to make a stub, at least put a little effort into it. Even just a one-sentence stub becomes a little more if you leave a useful external link or a couple of categories, or even a specified stub template, to give the ...

  8. Work motivation - Wikipedia

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    An employee with high self-efficacy is confident that effort they put forth has a high likelihood of resulting in success. In anticipation of success, an employee is willing to put forth more effort, persist longer, remain focused on the task, seek feedback and choose more effective task strategies.

  9. Goal setting - Wikipedia

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    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