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  2. Caricature - Wikipedia

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    Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm (1896), taken from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary ...

  3. Mockery - Wikipedia

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    However, mockery may also preserve the object relationship, because the other is needed to provide the material for caricature. Caricature in everyday life, at its most effective, involves the sublimation of aggression and may reach the form of humor— witness our fascination with political satire, often an exercise in the caricature of authority.

  4. Caricature (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others Caricature or Caricatures may also refer to: Caricature (Daniel Clowes collection) , a 1998 book collection of nine comic short stories by Daniel Clowes

  5. Stereotype - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. [2] It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. The type of expectation can vary; it can be, for example, an expectation about the group's personality, preferences, appearance or ability.

  6. Mental operations - Wikipedia

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    Semantic—Information perceived in words or sentences, whether oral, written, or silently in one's mind. Behavioral—Information perceived as acts of people. Product dimension; As the name suggests, this dimension contains results of applying particular operations to specific contents. The SI model includes six products, in increasing complexity:

  7. Spontaneous trait inference - Wikipedia

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    For example, Fundamental attribution error, which is the instinctive tendency to ascribe a certain behaviour to the individual's personality whilst neglecting the influence of situational factors, is a central concept to social psychology and is heavily founded on the spontaneous trait inference.

  8. Cognitive categorization - Wikipedia

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    Categorization is a type of cognition involving conceptual differentiation between characteristics of conscious experience, such as objects, events, or ideas.It involves the abstraction and differentiation of aspects of experience by sorting and distinguishing between groupings, through classification or typification [1] [2] on the basis of traits, features, similarities or other criteria that ...

  9. Exaggeration - Wikipedia

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    The level of exaggeration depends on whether one seeks realism or a particular style, like a caricature or the style of a specific artist. The classical definition of exaggeration, employed by Disney , was to remain true to reality, just presenting it in a wilder, more extreme form. [ 21 ]