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In statistics, self-selection bias arises in any situation in which individuals select themselves into a group, causing a biased sample with nonprobability sampling.It is commonly used to describe situations where the characteristics of the people which cause them to select themselves in the group create abnormal or undesirable conditions in the group.
Ambiguity effect; Assembly bonus effect; Audience effect; Baader–Meinhof effect; Barnum effect; Bezold effect; Birthday-number effect; Boomerang effect; Bouba/kiki effect
The Freudian slip is named after Sigmund Freud, who, in his 1901 book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, [1] described and analyzed a large number of seemingly trivial, even bizarre, or nonsensical errors and slips, most notably the Signorelli parapraxis.
For citations to the American Psychological Association (APA) Dictionary of Psychology. It auto-fills the name of the dictionary, date and publisher. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status title title The name of the dictionary entry Example Central nervous system (CNS) String required shortlink ...
The topdog gets more powerful as well as frustrated as the underdog begins to get more resistant. To get out of the cyclical nature of the topdog vs. underdog relationship, the topdog needs to move from "shoulds" to being more personable. The underdog must open up more in its resistance while taking responsibility. [1]
Sloppy seconds (or slops in Australian slang [1]) is a slang phrase for when a man has sexual intercourse with a (female or male [2]) partner shortly after that person has had intercourse with someone else, and is therefore wet or "sloppy".
Frost and Thompson (2000) review several methods for estimating this ratio and hence correcting the estimated slope. [4] The term regression dilution ratio , although not defined in quite the same way by all authors, is used for this general approach, in which the usual linear regression is fitted, and then a correction applied.
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.