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(An instance of) a verb form similar to mirative, found primarily in some languages of the Balkan sprachbund (i.e. namely Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian), which expresses surprise, irony, doubt, or reportedness on the part of the speaker (compare mirative).
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An opponent of critics or criticism.
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Opposing or going against the facts; false; delusional.
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That which is the opposite or negation of truth, especially of a mystical or religious truth.
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A tendency of decision-makers to give preference, usually unconsciously, to recent information, vivid images that evoke emotions, and specific acts and behaviors that they personally observed.
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A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency.
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(sociology) the observation that people often do or believe what they think many other people do.
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The tendency of individuals to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
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(psychology) The phenomenon that someone is less likely to help another if other potential helpers are present than otherwise.
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A form of cognitive bias that causes individuals to appear more attractive to an observer when they are in a group.
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(psychology) The tendency to more easily recognize members of one's own race.
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(marketing) The phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change in preference between two options when also presented with a third option that is asymmetrically dominated: that is, the third option is inferior in all respects to one option, but, in comparison to the other, it is inferior in some respects and superior in others.
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(psychology) The tendency for students to rate a teacher highly if lectures are presented in a very expressive, humorous, and warm manner, even when the content of the lecture is meaningless and incomprehensible.
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(psychology) A cognitive bias by which an unskilled individual suffers from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability as much higher than it actually is.
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(US) The idea that increased scrutiny of police following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has led to an increased crime rate (or sometimes murder rate) in major US cities.
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State or quality of being fictional.
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(psychology) The tendency of people to modify their choices depending on how the choices are presented
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(advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
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(psychology) A cognitive bias in which judgment of somebody's character is influenced by an overall impression of him or her.
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A cognitive bias comprising a tendency to overestimate the likelihood of one's success at a task perceived as difficult, and to underestimate that likelihood at a task perceived as easy.
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A phenomenon whereby a change in the behavior of a subject being studied is an effect of the change itself or the fact of being observed rather than the nature of the change in question.
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A cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.
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An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information.
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A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.
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Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
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The situation where performance gains in a task are seen in weaker individuals who are striving to keep up with the accomplishments of other group members.
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A type of selection bias, where brighter objects appear to be more common at further distances; caused by a larger actual sample gathering region per square degree at further distances, and that dimmer sources drop out of sight due to distance.
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The phenomenon of a large number of persons independently sharing the same false memory.
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(psychology) The phenomenon whereby people tend to develop a preference for something merely because they are familiar with it.
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An implicit memory effect in which prior exposure to a stimulus unfavourably influences the response to the same stimulus.
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A person who is prone to nostalgia.
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The posited phenomenon that any shoal member that stands out in appearance will be preferentially targeted by predators, which may explain why fish prefer to shoal with individuals that resemble themselves.
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Having an excessive regard for the past.
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In a way that preaches.
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(psychology) The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
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(informal, derogatory) A notional intracranial hamster representing the circular thought processes used to continuously justify one's own actions and beliefs.
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One who loves the past, or past styles.
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The quality of being reverential.
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The tendency to interpret information in a way that supports what one already believes.
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(psychology) The acceptance of self in spite of weaknesses or deficiencies.
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To achieve self-actualization; to reach one's personal peak of individual empowerment and fulfillment.
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The promotion of one's own qualities or abilities
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assessment of oneself (especially of ones income tax)
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Conviction proceeding from one's own consciousness, knowledge, or confession.
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An internal debate between two parts of an individual's mind.
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To make one's own decisions without outside interference.
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An examination of oneself; scrutiny of one's own state, condition, motives, etc.
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One who excuses or justifies himself/herself.
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Obstinately adhering to one's own opinion.
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In a self-possessed manner.
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Stated, announced, or acknowledged by oneself.
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qualification through a first party
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An instance of self-qualification
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Revelation of one's own thoughts, feelings, and attitudes, especially when not deliberately sought.
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Giving satisfaction to oneself.
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Selecting something for oneself.
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The posited phenomenon that small companies tend to outperform larger ones.
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A psychological and social phenomenon wherein people copy the actions of others if unsure how to behave.
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(psychology) The phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are.
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A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination.
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Fond reminiscence of, or longing for, outdated technology.
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The phenomenon whereby it is more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.
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A hypothesized phenomenon by which people tend to perceive that mass media messages have a greater effect on others than on themselves, based on personal biases.
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Of or relating to violation.
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