Political skill includes four dimensions: apparent sincerity, social astuteness, interpersonal influence, and networking ability (Ferris et al. 2005, 2007).
Alt Lit aped the goopy sincerity of social media, recasting it in poems.
He loved to tell the story of challenging Mrs. Macaulay, "a great republican," to prove her sincerity about social equality by asking her footman to dine at her table.
He was intensely and naively selfish, unconventional in behaviour, and impatient of all constraint; yet he charmed countless friends perhaps by a naturalness of manner and a sincerity in social relationships that were rare in his age and made apparently only one enemy (a fellow academician, Antoine Furetière).
While some may question the sincerity of corporate social marketing, we should recognize that corporations have the potential to play a critical role in democracy through responsible and transparent public affairs activities.
"Why can't you just be sincere?" "Oh, let's not take such a genial view of social circumstances so as to uphold sincerity as a primary value," Jacob said, with affected distraction, stirring his remaining ice with his straw.
Some public sector champions of social marketing are already discounting the sincerity of corporate social marketing.
Science, and a scientific approach to all the problems of social life, was another mode of sincerity, and the more science there was, the more moral people would be: What knowledge is of most worth?
Of the four dimensions of political skills (i.e., networking ability, social astuteness, interpersonal influence, and apparent sincerity), networking ability was found to be the strongest in predicting career and organizational outcomes (Todd et al., 2009).
How do we know the difference between sarcasm and sincerity, or understand that in many social situations people don't always say what they mean?
But in part because of his record as governor of Massachusetts, when the State Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal, many conservatives say they question the sincerity of his commitment to traditional social values.
