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Virtue of honest and genuine communication
Sincerity is the virtue of one who communicates and acts in accordance with the entirety of their feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and desires in a manner that is honest and genuine. Sincerity in one's actions may be called "earnestness". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SincerityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns.Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Sincerity and Other WorksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Authenticity and sincerity in tourismCited 484 times
- Go sideways: Aristotelian ethicsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: EudaimoniaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The quality or state of being sincere.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Authenticity and sincerity in tourism
Sincerity, "Modernity," and the Protestants
I Like What She’s #Endorsing: The Impact of Female Social Media Influencers’ Perceived Sincerity, Consumer Envy, and Product Type
The hypocrisy‐sincerity continuum in corporate communication and decision making
From Fetishism to Sincerity: On Agency, the Speaking Subject, and their Historicity in the Context of Religious Conversion
Epistemic trust and the ethics of science communication: against transparency, openness, sincerity and honesty
Sincerity in Corporate Philanthropy, Stakeholder Perceptions and Firm Value
Influencers' “organic” persuasion through electronic word of mouth: A case of sincerity over brains and beauty
🆕 Influential since 2022
Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns.
Managerial climate attention and corporate carbon emissions: Sincerity or disguise？
“Sincere White people, work in conjunction with us”: Racial minorities’ perceptions of White ally sincerity and perceptions of ally efforts
Sincerity or hypocrisy: can green M&A achieve corporate environmental governance?
Customer brand co-creation behavior and brand sincerity through CSR interactivity: The role of psychological implications in service-dominant logic
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Sincerity and Other WorksAlberto Hahn · 1994
Sincerity and authenticityLionel Trilling · 1972- 📕A divine discovery of sincerity according to its proper and peculiar natureNicholas Lockyer · 1640
- 📕Die Kunst der Aufrichtigkeit im 17. JahrhundertClaudia Benthien, Steffen Martus · 2006
- 📕Two select works of the Rev. John FlavelJohn Flavel · 1815
Literature and sincerityHenri Peyre · 1963
The touchstone of sincerity, or, Trial of true and false religionJohn Flavel · 1814- 📕A divine discovery of sincerityNicholas Lockyer · 1643
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