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  2. Declinism - Wikipedia

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    Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline.Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.

  3. Extinction (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    This usually consists of a sudden and temporary increase in the response's frequency, followed by the eventual decline and extinction of the behavior targeted for elimination. Novel behavior, or emotional responses or aggressive behavior, may also occur. [2] For example, a pigeon has been reinforced to peck an electronic button.

  4. Decline effect - Wikipedia

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    The decline effect in ocean acidification effects on fish behavior. The strength of effect declined by an order of magnitude over a decade of research on this topic. The decline effect in this field appears to be driven by publication bias, citation bas, sample sizes, and particular investigators publishing large effect sizes. [9]

  5. Anticonformity (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    An anticonformist is both publicly and privately in disagreement with others in the environment. The double diamond model of social responses introduces a new strategy in regards to anticonformity, strategic self-anticonformity. In other words, researchers claim that using reverse psychology could challenge anticonformist behavior. [8]

  6. Reverse psychology - Wikipedia

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    In the 1992 Disney film Aladdin, the titular character, upon freeing the Genie from the lamp, uses reverse psychology to trick the Genie into freeing him from the Cave of Wonders, without using one of his three wishes to do so. A popular example of reverse psychology in media is the release of Queen's hit song "Bohemian Rhapsody". Upon release ...

  7. Cognitive disengagement syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) is a syndrome characterized by developmentally inappropriate, impairing, and persistent levels of decoupled attentional processing from the ongoing external context and resultant hypoactivity.

  8. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The urge to do the opposite of what someone wants one to do out of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain one's freedom of choice (see also Reverse psychology). Reactive devaluation: Devaluing proposals only because they purportedly originated with an adversary. Social comparison bias

  9. Enantiodromia - Wikipedia

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    Enantiodromia (Ancient Greek: ἐναντίος, romanized: enantios – "opposite" and δρόμος, dromos – "running course") is a principle introduced in the West by psychiatrist Carl Jung. In Psychological Types, Jung defines enantiodromia as "the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time."