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A reputation is the estimation about a person held by others, such as his/her peers, neighbors, or some broader community. Reputations are collective phenomena and products of social processes, not just the impressions that others or individuals hold of others or themselves (Emler 1990). To have a reputation, people must be connected in some way to others (i.e., an audience). This can be achieved through direct interactions among mutual acquaintances or more indirectly, through gossip, rumor, media reports, and other communications. Adolescents, in particular, recognize the importance of an audience for reputation formation and indeed may be acutely sensitive to this sense of social awareness. It allows them to present themselves in a particular way so that they are accredited with specific qualities of character. The power of a reputation is such, however, that even when an audience is seemingly absent and individuals act on their own, a specific reputation of choice can...
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Carroll, A., Houghton, S., Durkin, K., Hattie, J. (2018). Reputations. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33228-4_168
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