assertiveness
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Instead, half of all baby girls born in America would be named Empowerment or Assertiveness.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2019
Assertiveness doesn’t just mean being bold enough to express the idea but having enough experience and judgment to feel true authority about its value.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017
And I thought, Wow, you’re like what Prof. Margaux in Assertiveness Class used to call “a real human being.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2010
The scene was staged during a ten-week course called "Assertiveness Training," the most popular offering in George Washington University's division of continuing education for women.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Assertiveness", "masterfulness", and the "mastery impulse" are alternative names.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
