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| Psychological Immune System |
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is a shorthand term used to encompass a number of biases and cognitive mechanisms that protect the subject from experiencing extreme negative emotions. They achieve this by ignoring, transforming or constructing information, making the existing state of affairs more bearable while decreasing the appeal of the alternatives.They operate largely or entirely outside conscious awareness.
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is the forecasting of one's affect (emotional state) in the future. This kind of prediction is affected by various kinds of cognitive biases, i.e. systematic errors of thought. Daniel Gilbert of the department of social psychology at Harvard University and other researchers in the field, such as Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia and George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University, have studied these cognitive biases and given them names such as "empathy gap" and "impact bias".
Examples of the impact bias include over-estimating emotional reactions to Valentine's Day, football games, elections, movie clips and the reactions of juries to criminal trials. |
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The tendency for people to overestimate the length or the intensity of future emotional estates.
Back to normal in a couple of years |
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Has to do with appropriate action, asking:
What should I do? |
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Has to do with facts and logic, asking:
What is the case? |
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| is a coping strategy that our unconscious minds use for reconciling our impulses with actual or perceived social pressure |
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| status quo is seen as good. The patient may not want to change, feels well with the current state of events. |
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that process by which a subject with an unconscious desire strenuously rejects any stimulation that might activate it.
Resistance tends to be more short-term, while reaction-formation tends to be longer-term. |
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| falling back into an early state of mental/physical development seen as "less demanding and safer" |
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| possessing a feeling that is deemed as socially unacceptable and instead of facing it, that feeling or "unconscious urge" is seen in the actions of other people |
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| seen as the most acceptable of the mechanisms, an expression of anxiety in socially acceptable ways |
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| Refusal to accept external reality because it is too threatening; arguing against an anxiety-provoking stimulus by stating it does not exist; resolution of emotional conflict and reduction of anxiety by refusing to perceive or consciously acknowledge the more unpleasant aspects of external reality |
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is the process by which the subject replicates behaviors, attributes, or other fragments of the surrounding world, especially of other subjects.
Why -- > to connect with other people, fashion |
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| is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a cohesive, realistic whole. It is a common defense mechanism.[1] The individual tends to think in extremes (i.e., an individual's actions and motivations are all good or all bad with no middle ground) |
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| is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.[1] It may evoke changes in them such as cognitive dissonance or low self-esteem, rendering the victim additionally dependent on the gaslighter for emotional support and validation. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's beliefs. |
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| is the expression (as by speaking or writing) of the content of consciousness without censorship as an aid in gaining access to unconscious processes |
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| Gestalt therapy is distinct because it moves toward action, away from mere talk therapy, and for this reason is considered an experiential approach.[Through experiments, the therapist supports the client's direct experience of something new, instead of merely talking about the possibility of something new. Indeed, the entire therapeutic relationship may be considered experimental, because at one level it is a corrective, relational experience for many clients, and it is a "safe emergency" that is free to turn out however it will. An experiment can also be conceived as a teaching method that creates an experience in which a client might learn something as part of their growth |
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is a derogatory term to define public relations activities for political institutions, political actors or corporations that emphasize or exaggerate the most positive aspects of something. The term does not indicate a profession, like public relations, or a neutral activity, like political communication, but is a biased expression used by journalists to discredit the work of public relations experts. The term is commonly used to refer to campaigns and communications that are based on deception and manipulation. Governments, political actors, and corporations are using this technique to protect their image from criticism, to achieve consensus and public support and to sell their ideas and opinions. In politics, the concept of spin doctoring is tied to the process of mediatization, which has made politicians and political institutions more concerned for their appearance and how they are represented in mass media than the political reality.
There are examples of at least that have different recollection of event in which they participated. In those they term to have a rather idyllic behavior or performance. This could be useful for them to keep a high self-esteem. |
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| which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related |
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In psychology and sociology, the term is used for the mistaken detection of a pattern or meaning in random or meaningless data
A famous example of this is the fact that human-face recognition is so robust, and based on such a basic archetype |
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| is the process where the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become, if the process is more or less successful, integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.[citation needed] Other psychoanalytic theorists describe it as the stage where an individual transcends group attachment and narcissistic self-absorption |
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| the hero's journey, or the monomyth, |
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| In narratology and comparative mythology, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed. |
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| is described as a set of mental processes that is able to affect judgement and decision-making, but is out of reach of the conscious mind. It is thought to be adaptive as it helps to keep the organism alive.[2] Architecturally, the adaptive unconscious is said to be unreachable because it is buried in an unknown part of the brain. This type of thinking evolved earlier than the conscious mind, enabling the mind to transform information and think in ways that enhance an organism's survival. |
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| are a social group or culture's informal norms that distinguish how one should express themselves. They can be described as culturally prescribed rules that people learn early on in their lives by interactions and socializations with other people |
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| Somatic marker hypothesis |
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| When individuals make decisions, they must assess the incentive value of the choices available to them, using cognitive and emotional processes. When the individuals face complex and conflicting choices, they may be unable to decide using only cognitive processes, which may become overloaded. Emotions, consequently, are hypothesized to guide decision-making. |
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| lack of empathy, deceitfulness and complete selfishness |
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| The abyssal separation of mind and body |
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