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Abstract

Critical thinking is one of the most highly respected scientific ideals in the academic life. But when it is practiced, for example in reviewing written texts, it is not always experienced as a good thing. It hurts to be criticised. Therefore this practice will for sure generate dissonant feelings, both in those who are giving critique and in those who are receiving it. In order to manage the ambivalence both parties have to learn a cultural competence for presenting and accepting critical viewpoints as a usable gift.