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  2. Salience (language) - Wikipedia

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    As ideals become more salient they become more accessible, the more accessible the attitude object is the stronger the attitude toward the object. As accessibility increases, so does the likelihood of self-interested voting (Young). For example: In times of elections, issue relevant events are the focus of attention.

  3. Social salience - Wikipedia

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    The social salience of an individual is a compilation of that individual's salient attributes. These may be changes to dress or physical attributes with respect to a previous point in time or with respect to the surrounding environment. Salient attributes of an individual may include the following: Clothing (e.g., boldly patterned clothing)

  4. Salience (neuroscience) - Wikipedia

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    Salience (also called saliency, from Latin saliƍ meaning “leap, spring” [1]) is the property by which some thing stands out.Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.

  5. Self-categorization theory - Wikipedia

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    Under these conditions a perceiver directly bases their behaviour and beliefs on the norms, goals and needs of a salient ingroup. [9] [24] For example, if a person's salient self-category becomes 'army officer' then that person is more likely to act in terms of the norms associated with that category (e.g. to wear a uniform, follow orders, and ...

  6. Representativeness heuristic - Wikipedia

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    It is one of a group of heuristics (simple rules governing judgment or decision-making) proposed by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s as "the degree to which [an event] (i) is similar in essential characteristics to its parent population, and (ii) reflects the salient features of the process by which it is ...

  7. Social identity theory - Wikipedia

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    Social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group. [1] [2]As originally formulated by social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and the 1980s, [3] social identity theory introduced the concept of a social identity as a way in which to explain intergroup behaviour.

  8. Victims' lawyer questions timing of dementia diagnosis of ex ...

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    An attorney representing once-aspiring male models trafficked for sex in an international scheme allegedly orchestrated by ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries is questioning claims that the ...

  9. Halo effect - Wikipedia

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    The salient dimension model states that how people perceive an individual characteristic affects their evaluation of other characteristics. [56] The inadequate discrimination model refers to the rater's failure to identify different behaviors of the person being evaluated.