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  2. Malingering - Wikipedia

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    Malingering is the fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms designed to achieve a desired outcome, such as personal gain, relief from duty or work, avoiding arrest, receiving medication, or mitigating prison sentencing. It presents a complex ethical dilemma within domains of society, including healthcare ...

  3. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 31

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    Compare his actions vis a vis Scotland, Wales, France, the Barons (including early in his reign vs late) and the Jews. --Dweller 12:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC) Looking at each character's use of force to solve a problem/benefit themselves would be one good indication of bullying behaviour.87.102.88.202 13:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

  4. Loitering - Wikipedia

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    Loitering is the act of standing or waiting around idly without apparent purpose in some public places. [ 1 ] While the laws regarding loitering have been challenged and changed over time, loitering of suspect people can be illegal in some jurisdictions and some specific circumstances.

  5. Johnson said ‘malingering’ people should get back to work ...

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    More extracts from Professor Sir Patrick Vallance’s diaries have been shown at the inquiry.

  6. Talk:Factitious disorder - Wikipedia

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    I had to edit the bit on malingering as no sources or evidence were offered. The article talked about what a physician may perceive, but this is subject and again no evidence was offered. Dictionary.com talks about feigning illness - which I think is a better descriptor malingerer, rather than becoming academic as to "why" a person may malinger.

  7. Personality Assessment Inventory - Wikipedia

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    Malingering Index; to assist in identifying feigned mental illness. Rogers Discriminant Function; to assist in identifying simulated profiles with a negative bias. Further identification of exaggeration and/or negative bias can be calculated used the NIM Predicted Profile [1] Additionally, one can also apply the use of the Negative Distortion ...

  8. Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology - Wikipedia

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    Stating that an individual is malingering can cause iatrogenic harm to patients if they are actually not exaggerating or feigning. Such iatrogenic harm may consist in delaying or denying medical attention, therapies, or insurance benefits. In the U.S. military, malingering is a court-martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  9. List of bad luck signs - Wikipedia

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    Breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck [1]; A bird or flock of birds going from left to right () [citation needed]Certain numbers: The number 4.Fear of the number 4 is known as tetraphobia; in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the number sounds like the word for "death".