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  2. Proportionality bias - Wikipedia

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    The proportionality bias, also known as major event/major cause heuristic, is the tendency to assume that big events have big causes.It is a type of cognitive bias and plays an important role in people's tendency to accept conspiracy theories.

  3. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency to have an excessive optimism towards an invention or innovation's usefulness throughout society, while often failing to identify its limitations and weaknesses. Projection bias: The tendency to overestimate how much one's future selves will share one's current preferences, thoughts and values, thus leading to sub-optimal choices.

  4. Type A and Type B personality theory - Wikipedia

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    Type A individuals' proclivity for competition and aggression is illustrated in their interactions with other Type As and Type Bs. When playing a modified Prisoner's Dilemma game, Type A individuals elicited more competitiveness and angry feelings from both Type A and Type B opponents than did the Type B individuals. Type A individuals punished ...

  5. Preference - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, preferences refer to an individual's attitude towards a set of objects, typically reflected in an explicit decision-making process. [1] The term is also used to mean evaluative judgment in the sense of liking or disliking an object, as in Scherer (2005), [2] which is the most typical definition employed in psychology.

  6. Parataxic distortion - Wikipedia

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    Parataxic distortion is a psychiatric term first used by Harry S. Sullivan to describe the inclination to skew perceptions of others based on fantasy.The "distortion" is a faulty perception of others, based not on actual experience with the other individual, but on a projected fantasy personality attributed to the individual.

  7. Person-centered therapy - Wikipedia

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    Person-centered therapy (PCT), also known as person-centered psychotherapy, person-centered counseling, client-centered therapy and Rogerian psychotherapy, is a form of psychotherapy developed by psychologist Carl Rogers and colleagues beginning in the 1940s [1] and extending into the 1980s. [2]

  8. Callous and unemotional traits - Wikipedia

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    Also, the operational definition failed to include dimensions that could reliably predict the affective and interpersonal deficits in psychopathic-like youths. Due to these issues, the American Psychiatric Association removed the undersocialized and socialized distinctions from the conduct disorder description in the DSM after the third edition.

  9. Trait ascription bias - Wikipedia

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    Trait ascription and the cognitive bias associated with it have been a topic of active research for more than three decades. [2] [3] Like many other cognitive biases, trait ascription bias is supported by a substantial body of experimental research and has been explained in terms of numerous theoretical frameworks originating in various disciplines.