Highlights•Communicators perceive difficult conversations as requiring a tradeoff between
benevolence and honesty.•Communicators exaggerate this conflict, and as a result, they …

Students involved in peer assessment have interpersonal relationships, partly consisting of
reciprocal perceptions. In the domain of argumentative writing, little is known about the way …

Previous feedback models in education (1) overlook that intrapersonal factors (ie factors
describing one's personality) as well as interpersonal factors (ie factors describing the …

Failure often contains useful information, yet across five studies involving 11 separate
samples (N= 1238), people were reluctant to share this information with others. First, using a …

Growing evidence reveals that failures—whether in the classroom, at work, or in people's
personal and social lives—are difficult to learn from. Traditionally, researchers have focused …

Because of the improvement-oriented nature of peer-feedback activities, students have to
deal with errors (eg, spelling and argumentation errors) when providing and processing …

From delivering negative feedback at work to discussing death and illness with children and
setting boundaries with loved ones, having difficult conversations is a necessary but …

Asking for feedback is a popular way to solicit third-party input at work. However, feedback
seeking is only weakly related to performance, and employees often report that the feedback …

The present research examines occurrences of interpersonal feedback in everyday life.
Drawing upon retrospective self‐reports from three student samples in Germany and the US …

Students, especially those from recent generations, typically encounter difficulties providing
and receiving feedback. Hence approaches to teach students feedback skills are valuable …