Confidence

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Confidence is a the emotion of someone being happy of what they know, look like and feel like. A positive example, could be someone being happy of how and what they look like.^[1] A negative example can be someone thinking too much of themselves where they act rude and better than everyone else.^[2]

1. ↑ Snyder, C. R.; Lopez, Shane J. (2009-01-01). Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518724-3.
2. ↑ Judge, Timothy A.; Erez, Amir; Bono, Joyce E.; Thoresen, Carl J. (2002-09-01). "Are measures of self-esteem, neuroticism, locus of control, and generalized self-efficacy indicators of a common core construct?". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 83 (3): 693–710. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.3.693. ISSN 1939-1315. PMID 12219863. S2CID 18551901.