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  2. Attention seeking - Wikipedia

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    Enjoying the attention of others is socially acceptable in some situations, [4] and attention-seeking may be adaptive in some contexts like acting (upstaging) or marketing. [5] However, an excessive need for attention is often a symptom of an underlying personality disorder and can lead to difficulties in interpersonal relationships.

  3. Appoggiatura - Wikipedia

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    An appoggiatura (/ ə ˌ p ɒ dʒ ə ˈ tj ʊər ə / ə-POJ-ə-TURE-ə, Italian: [appoddʒaˈtuːra]; German: Vorschlag or Vorhalt; French: port de voix) is a musical ornament that consists of an added non-chord note in a melody that is resolved to the regular note of the chord.

  4. Histrionic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Histrionic personality disorder; Dramatic behavior is a key marker of histrionic personality disorder: Specialty: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry: Symptoms: Persistent attention seeking, dramatic behavior, rapidly shifting and shallow emotions, sexually provocative behavior, undetailed style of speech, and a tendency to consider relationships more intimate than they actually are.

  5. Delayed gratification - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, children who stay close to a non-controlling mothers also use more cool strategies and demonstrate longer delays. This suggests that some children of controlling mothers have better learned how to distract themselves from or effectively avoid intrusive stimuli, although additional effects on their emotional competency are speculated ...

  6. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Batsu. In Japanese culture, the batsu (literally: ×-mark) is a gesture made by crossing one's arms in the shape of an "X" in front of them in order to indicate that something is "wrong" or "no good". [36] Bras d'honneur is an obscene gesture made by flexing one elbow while gripping the inside of the bent arm with the opposite hand.

  7. Attention span - Wikipedia

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    Transient attention is a short-term response to a stimulus that temporarily attracts or distracts attention. Researchers disagree on the exact amount of the human transient attention span, whereas selective sustained attention, also known as focused attention, is the level of attention that produces consistent results on a task over time.

  8. Continuous partial attention - Wikipedia

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    Continuous partial attention is the behavior of dividing one's attention, scanning and optimizing opportunities in an effort to not miss anything that is going on, coined in 1998 by Linda Stone. [1] While multitasking is driven by a conscious desire to be productive, continuous partial attention is an automatic process motivated by the desire ...

  9. Sensory overload - Wikipedia

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    Advertisers use attention-grabbing colours, words, sounds, textures, designs and much more. [33] This can influence the consumer, as they will be drawn to a product that is more attention grabbing. [33] However, policy makers and advertisers must be aware that too much information or attention-grabbing products can cause sensory overload.