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P. M. Forni

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Dr. Pier Massimo Forni is a professor in the Department of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University. In 1997 he co-founded the Johns Hopkins Civility Project, an aggregation of academic and community outreach activities that is aimed at assessing the significance of civility, manners and politeness in contemporary society. It has been reconstituted as The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins, which Dr. Forni now directs.

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Average rating: 3.58 · 479 ratings · 133 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct 3.72 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude 3.12 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction 3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:

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“When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.”
― P. M. Forni, The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude

tags: civility , narcissism , rudeness

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