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  2. Why are people so bad at texting? The psychology behind bad ...

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    While bad texters typically refer to people who flake on responding, there are also people who do respond to texts, but do so in a way that leaves the recipient feeling cold. Assuming one has a ...

  3. Missing letter effect - Wikipedia

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    When readers take part in the letter detection task and are given a connected text to read, there are less letter detection errors of a target letter (for example ‘t’) when it is situated as the initial letter of a word (e.g. tree) compared to when it is embedded into words (e.g. path). [21]

  4. Reactance (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    There are four important elements to reactance theory: perceived freedom, threat to freedom, reactance, and restoration of freedom. Freedom is not an abstract consideration, but rather a feeling associated with real behaviors, including actions, emotions, and attitudes. Reactance also explains denial as it is encountered in addiction counselling.

  5. Expectancy violations theory - Wikipedia

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    Expectancy violations theory (EVT) is a theory of communication that analyzes how individuals respond to unanticipated violations of social norms and expectations. [1] The theory was proposed by Judee K. Burgoon in the late 1970s and continued through the 1980s and 1990s as "nonverbal expectancy violations theory", based on Burgoon's research studying proxemics.

  6. Social-desirability bias - Wikipedia

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    Topics where socially desirable responding (SDR) is of special concern are self-reports of abilities, personality, sexual behavior, and drug use. When confronted with the question "How often do you masturbate ?," for example, respondents may be pressured by a social taboo against masturbation, and either under-report the frequency or avoid ...

  7. Is 'No Response' Actually a Response? How To Know ... - AOL

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    Lead by example here." 3. You're politely disagreeing ... There aren't always enough hours in the day to respond to every last text or response you got when you took the bait and commented on a ...

  8. Priming (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Priming is a concept in psychology to describe how exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. [1] [2] [3] The priming effect is the positive or negative effect of a rapidly presented stimulus (priming stimulus) on the processing of a second stimulus (target stimulus) that appears shortly after.

  9. Silent treatment - Wikipedia

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    Tactical ignoring can be one element of a behavior management plan when there are a variety of challenging behaviors being addressed. Because it is a method that involves not responding to an undesirable behavior, it should be complemented by differential reinforcement for an alternative behavior, as seen in functional communication training, a ...