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  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency for some people, especially those with depression, to overestimate the likelihood of negative things happening to them. (compare optimism bias) Present bias: The tendency of people to give stronger weight to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering trade-offs between two future moments. [111] Plant blindness

  3. Alexithymia - Wikipedia

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    The core issue is that people with alexithymia have poorly differentiated emotions, limiting their ability to distinguish and describe them to others. [15] This contributes to the sense of emotional detachment from themselves and difficulty connecting with others, making alexithymia negatively associated with life satisfaction even when ...

  4. Intrusive thought - Wikipedia

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    However, rational thinking processes attempt to explain this reaction and OCD causes people to attribute false meaning and importance to these physiological reactions in an attempt to make sense of them. [26] People can also experience heightened anxiety caused by forbidden images or simply by discussing the matter which can then also cause ...

  5. Cognitive bias - Wikipedia

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    Also called the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect. Embodied cognition: Tendency to have selectivity in perception, attention, decision making, and motivation based on the biological state of the body. Anchoring bias: The inability of people to make appropriate adjustments from a starting point in response to a final answer.

  6. Negativity bias - Wikipedia

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    The negativity bias, [1] also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things.

  7. Emotional detachment - Wikipedia

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    Despair by Edvard Munch (1894) captures emotional detachment seen in Borderline Personality Disorder. [1] [2]In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, is a condition or state in which a person lacks emotional connectivity to others, whether due to an unwanted circumstance or as a positive means to cope with anxiety.

  8. Hard–easy effect - Wikipedia

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    The hard–easy effect is a cognitive bias that manifests itself as a tendency to overestimate the probability of one's success at a task perceived as hard, and to underestimate the likelihood of one's success at a task perceived as easy. The hard-easy effect takes place, for example, when individuals exhibit a degree of underconfidence in ...

  9. Complex (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    There are many kinds of them, but at the core of any complex is a universal pattern of experience, or archetype. [6] Two of the major complexes Jung wrote about were the anima (a node of unconscious beliefs and feelings in a man's psyche relating to the opposite gender) and animus (the corresponding complex in a woman's psyche).