BACKGROUND/AIM The associations between emotional personality, proximity and authenticity in patient-physician communication during breast cancer (BC) consultations are rarely considered together in a prospective study. We, therefore, investigated emotional personality/proximity versus authenticity in patient-physician communication in healthy study subjects (HSS) and in patients with benign br...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the authenticity of IELTS academic tests. Bachman and Palmer (1996, p. 23) define authenticity as “the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task”. Authenticity is then an important aspect of testing since it describes the relationship between the test and the real world. Th...

People travel and increasingly engage in cultural activities, a phenomenon that has been called cultural tourism. Two principal reasons for these trips or visits are the need to break with monotony and the search for enjoyment and authentic experiences. Conversely, cultural places such as museums tend to rely on Information Technologies (IT) to support their exhibition and communication to the ...

South African managers in public service consistently face challenges related to managing a well-adjusted and productive diverse workforce. Following the notion that leadership authenticity fosters positive psychological employee capacity, the aim of this study was to explore the meaning essence of authenticity as lived in the work-life experiences of senior managers in public service. Five sen...

Fashion blogging is an international subculture comprised primarily of young women who post photographs of themselves and their possessions, comment on clothes and fashion, and use self-branding techniques to promote themselves and their blogs. Drawing from ethnographic interviews with 30 participants, I examine how fashion bloggers use “authenticity” as an organizing principle to differentiate...

Biology now produces massive genomic and other data, new ways of building knowledge rely ever more on the processing of data through information technology. Biological data such as DNA sequences and analysis tools are widely accessible via Internet and qualify as authentic. They offer new opportunities to explore, test and validate hypotheses in numerous fields of biology and allow students to ...