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Respect

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Synonyms

Appreciation; Civility; Recognition (means of acknowledgment); Responsiveness

Antonyms

Disrespect; Rudeness

Definition

Having its nomological roots in the Latin verb respicere meaning to “look around,” “show consideration,” and “pay attention to someone,” the term respect was coined by philosophers (e.g., Darwall 1977; Dillon 1992), with Immanuel Kant (1785) being the most prominent. With the aim of sharpening the concept of respect, researchers argued for a differentiation from connotatively related concepts such as acceptance, care, courtesy, status, tolerance, trust, dignity, affirmation, or even justice (e.g., Rogers and Ashforth 2017; van Quaquebeke et al. 2007) leading to the definition by Van Quaquebeke and Eckloff (2010, p. 344): “A person who respects another person acts in such a manner that it in return engenders a feeling in the other person of being appreciated in his/her importance and worth as a person.” Accordingly, the setting of respect requires a social...

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  1. RespectResearchGroup, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Catharina Vogt

  2. Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Nadine Skoluda

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Vogt, C., Skoluda, N. (2020). Respect. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_102025-1

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