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  2. 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.

  3. Sensory processing sensitivity - Wikipedia

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    By way of definition, Aron and Aron (1997) wrote that sensory processing here refers not to the sense organs themselves, but to what occurs as sensory information is transmitted to or processed in the brain. [4] They assert that the trait is not a disorder but an innate survival strategy that has both advantages and disadvantages. [11] [12]

  4. Cleve Backster - Wikipedia

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    Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Backster Jr. (February 27, 1924 – June 24, 2013) was an interrogation specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), best known for his experiments with plants using a polygraph instrument in the 1960s which led to his theory of primary perception where he claimed that plants feel pain and have extrasensory perception (ESP), which was widely reported in the media.

  5. Epiphenomenalism - Wikipedia

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    Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem.It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but do not themselves influence physical events.

  6. Four temperaments - Wikipedia

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    18th-century depiction of the four temperaments: [1] phlegmatic and choleric above, sanguine and melancholic below The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

  7. Interoception - Wikipedia

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    The concept of interoception was introduced in 1906 by the Nobel Laureate Sir Charles S. Sherrington.He did not use the noun interoception, but did describe as interoceptive [12] those receptors that are within the viscera—what are today called "visceroceptive"—and thus excluded all other receptors and information from the body, which he grouped as either exteroceptive or proprioceptive.

  8. Superiority complex - Wikipedia

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    While Adler considered what he refers to in his writing as striving for superiority was a universal of human nature, [5] he thought sound-minded individuals do not strive for personal superiority over others, rather for personal ambition and success through work. By contrast, those with an actual superiority complex were riddled with conceited ...

  9. Human presence detection - Wikipedia

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    Human presence detection is a range of technologies and methods [1] for detecting the presence of a human body in an area of interest (AOI), or verification that computer, smartphone (or other device controlled by software) is operated by human.