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  2. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    Although Freud determined tendentious elements pushed individuals to potential laugh attacks, innocuous elements were still essential. Hostility alone cannot be enjoyed because society deems it wrong. In society, one cannot laugh when told a story of tragedy. The only way it is accepted is if they are embellished with jokework.

  3. Culture of fear - Wikipedia

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    When employees get the sense that bullies are tolerated, a climate of fear may be the result. [18] Several studies have confirmed a relationship between bullying, on one hand, and an autocratic leadership and an authoritarian way of settling conflicts or dealing with disagreements, on the other.

  4. Aggression - Wikipedia

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    One includes affective (emotional) and hostile, reactive, or retaliatory aggression that is a response to provocation, and the other includes instrumental, goal-oriented or predatory, in which aggression is used as a means to achieve a goal. [14] An example of hostile aggression would be a person who punches someone that insulted him or her.

  5. Self-preservation - Wikipedia

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    Self-preservation may also be interpreted figuratively, in regard to the coping mechanisms one needs to prevent emotional trauma from distorting the mind (see Defence mechanisms). Even the most simple of living organisms (for example, the single-celled bacteria) are typically under intense selective pressure to evolve a response that would help ...

  6. Violence - Wikipedia

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    Violence is often defined as the use of physical force or power by humans to cause harm and degradation to other living beings, such as humiliation, pain, injury, disablement, damage to property and ultimately death, as well as destruction to a society's living environment.

  7. Verbal abuse - Wikipedia

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    Verbal abuse (also known as verbal aggression, verbal attack, verbal violence, verbal assault, psychic aggression, or psychic violence) is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral or written language directed to a victim. [1]

  8. Superiority complex - Wikipedia

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    A superiority complex is a defense mechanism that develops over time to help a person cope with feelings of inferiority. [1] [2] The term was coined by Alfred Adler (1870–1937) in the early 1900s, as part of his school of individual psychology.

  9. Intentional stance - Wikipedia

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    The intentional stance is a term coined by philosopher Daniel Dennett for the level of abstraction in which we view the behavior of an entity in terms of mental properties.It is part of a theory of mental content proposed by Dennett, which provides the underpinnings of his later works on free will, consciousness, folk psychology, and evolution.