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  2. 105 Toxic People Quotes To Help Get Rid of the Negativity in ...

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    31. "Handling toxic people is not an art, they will be the victim of their own toxicity." – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar. 32. "I have found the best way to deal with a toxic person is to not respond in ...

  3. Ostrich effect - Wikipedia

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    For example, people with diabetes avoid monitoring their blood sugar levels. [ 6 ] Banerjee & Zanella highlighted the ostrich effect in avoiding preventive screening , studying women working at a company to understand how a woman’s propensity to get annual mammograms changes after a co-worker is diagnosed with breast cancer.

  4. Social rejection - Wikipedia

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    Instead, people have a strong motivational drive to form and maintain caring interpersonal relationships. People need both stable relationships and satisfying interactions with the people in those relationships. If either of these two ingredients is missing, people will begin to feel lonely and unhappy. [7] Thus, rejection is a significant threat.

  5. Expectancy violations theory - Wikipedia

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    Expectancy violations theory (EVT) is a theory of communication that analyzes how individuals respond to unanticipated violations of social norms and expectations. [1] The theory was proposed by Judee K. Burgoon in the late 1970s and continued through the 1980s and 1990s as "nonverbal expectancy violations theory", based on Burgoon's research studying proxemics.

  6. What Happens When You Ignore a Gaslighter? Psychologists ...

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    When you feel powerless and exasperated by the other person’s behavior, you may think that ignoring them is a solution to their gaslighting. But as Dr. Ayrapetyan says, unfortunately, it often ...

  7. Shaming, ignoring, gossiping, gaslighting: HR experts say ...

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    Among them: People ignoring others, sending “not nice” emails to an employee and copying everybody, spreading rumors, gossiping, eye rolling in meetings, taking credit for the work of others ...

  8. Suspension of disbelief - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a philosopher and poet known for his influence on English literature, coined the turn-of-phrase and elaborated upon it.. Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for ...

  9. Elephant in the room - Wikipedia

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    It's so big you just can't ignore it." [7] According to the website the Phrase Finder, the first known use in print is from 1952. [8] This idiomatic expression may have been in general use much earlier than 1959. For example, the phrase appears 44 years earlier in the pages of the British Journal of Education in 1915. The sentence was presented ...