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Psychology
The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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group dynamics
Psychology; General psychology
The study of how group processes change individual functioning.
Dunning-Kruger effect
Psychology; General psychology
A chiefly American phenomenon where the unskilled will rate their ability at a task higher than average, whereas the legitimately skilled will think of themselves as below ...
neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
Psychology; General psychology
NLP is a therapeutic technique. Founders of NLP are Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP explores the relationships between how we think (neuro), how we communicate (linguistic) ...
prototype
Psychology; General psychology
A full-size original of which a model is a representation on a reduced scale.
determinism
Psychology; General psychology
The philosophical doctrine that human action is not free but necessarily determined by motives, which are regarded as external forces acting upon the will.
anogenic
Psychology; General psychology
Angiogenesis is the physiological process involving the growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels.
Streisand Effect
Psychology; General psychology
When the spread of certain information accelerates due to the attempts to slow it down. The effect was named in 2003 when American entertainer Barbara Streisand tried to prevent ...
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)