You call it “sharing”, I call it “bragging”: Conceptualizing travel bragging from a dual perspective

Travel bragging refers to showing off or boasting about travel experiences. Although travel bragging is increasingly ubiquitous on social media, this topic has been largely under-researched in academia. The present study aimed to explore travel bragging through a qualitative approach from both travel braggers’ and audience’s perspectives. Based on data from 30 semi-structured interviews, this study provided a systematic conceptualization of travel bragging, which included the definition of travel bragging, how to distinguish travel bragging from travel experience sharing, motivations of travel bragging, the influence of travel bragging on both travel braggers and their audience, as well as their coping strategies in response to the negative impacts of travel bragging. The conceptualization of travel bragging highlights the perception gaps between the travel braggers and the audience in identification of travel bragging, motivations of travel bragging and the emotional experiences of the audience. Further, this study contributes to the WOM (word of mouth) literature by uncovering the positive and negative influences of travel bragging and the underlying mechanisms. Managerially, this study generated important implications for destination marketing organizations, individuals, and policy makers related to travel bragging

Bragging about Bragging

One of the most important functions of women\u27s studies is to establish an understanding of the crippling effects on our egos and self-esteem of our second-class status. I have developed a technique that I use in my women\u27s studies classes that offers one approach to this task. My course, called The Problems and Potential of Women, meets once a week for a three hour session and is limited to fifteen people. The first night we go around the room and each woman talks a little about herself and about why she\u27s taking the course. We try to begin knowing each other. I talk about how we women don\u27t really think very much of ourselves, how we settle for less because we don\u27t think we deserve more; how it is that we measure ourselves against Them instead of Them against us. I describe the traits that Gordon Allport discusses in The Nature of Prejudice in the chapter Traits Due to Victimization

Lingua-Cultural Peculiarities of Facebook Bragging - Narcissism on Facebook

The social network site Facebook has gained a prominent place in the lives of many individuals. It provides narcissists a platform where they can promote themselves to a large audience in order to get attention and admiration they so desperately crave for. It is the perfect place to brag and seek praise or fish for compliments. Facebook bragging is an actual topic nowadays and it is meaningful to explore this phenomenon because of several reasons. Firstly, there are too many cyberpsychological studies about the correlation between social media and narcissistic tendencies, but linguistically Facebook bragging is not investigated at all. At the same time this is the first try of exploring Georgian bragging linguistically. Finally, the research is interesting because of being based on comparative analysis, studying the linguo-stylistic and cultural peculiarities of Facebook bragging in two completely different cultures - Georgian and American. Keywords: Facebook bragging, narcissism, self-promotion, humblebragging, lingua-cultural study

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Disentangled and Robust Representation Learning for Bragging Classification in Social Media

Researching bragging behavior on social media arouses interest of computational (socio) linguists. However, existing bragging classification datasets suffer from a serious data imbalance issue. Because labeling a data-balance dataset is expensive, most methods introduce external knowledge to improve model learning. Nevertheless, such methods inevitably introduce noise and non-relevance information from external knowledge. To overcome the drawback, we propose a novel bragging classification method with disentangle-based representation augmentation and domain-aware adversarial strategy. Specifically, model learns to disentangle and reconstruct representation and generate augmented features via disentangle-based representation augmentation. Moreover, domain-aware adversarial strategy aims to constrain domain of augmented features to improve their robustness. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to other methods

Bragging about bragg

Jennifer L. Martin, an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, considers Lawrence Bragg as one of the best scientists in the world. She is ashamed of those people, generally Australians, who do not recognize Bragg. He was born in Adelaide on 31st March 1890 and was the first Australian to win a Nobel Prize. Lawrence and his father William H. Bragg were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. Bragg's law unlocked the secrets of atomic structure and chemical bonding and established an entirely new field of science. Lawrence Bragg became the director of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge where he fostered the careers of many other researchers. Later, as Director of the Royal Institution in London, he mentored other protein crystallography greats including David Phillips and Louise Johnson

Bragging and Modesty

Young people today react to bragging in the same way as previous generations, according to new research by psychologists at the University of Dayton

Bragging and Modesty

People react more favorably to boasting when it is supported by evidence. But the researchers found being modest — saying you’re average at something when the evidence shows you’re actually great at it — makes someone the most likeable

Eagle Opponents 2016: Georgia State

Eagle Opponents 2016: Georgia State Battle for in-state bragging rights on the line in the Georgia Dom