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  2. Muphry's law - Wikipedia

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    Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." [1] The name is a deliberate misspelling of "Murphy's law". Names for variations on the principle have also been coined, usually in the context of online communication, including:

  3. Control freak - Wikipedia

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    Control freak is a colloquialism that is usually employed to describe a person obsessed with performing tasks in a way that they perceive as correct. A control freak can become distressed when someone causes a deviation in the way that they prefer to perform tasks. [1]

  4. Hypercorrection (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    As people fear being ridiculed for answering a general knowledge question incorrectly, they will be more likely to remember a confident mistake they had made once. For example, a person suggests that scallops come from trees. This person's friends laugh, pointing out that scallops come from the ocean.

  5. 12 Phrases To Use When Someone Is 'Talking Down' to You ... - AOL

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    Nothing can squash your confidence quite like someone talking down to you. "When someone talks down to you, they are communicating about their perceived superiority and their perception of your ...

  6. 10 Signs Someone Is Constantly Thinking About You ... - AOL

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    "If you’re constantly on someone’s mind, they likely want to spend time with you too, and will frequently try to make plans with you," Dr. Trotter says. 9. Social media.

  7. Pathological lying - Wikipedia

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    Curtis and Hart (2020) defined pathological lying as "a persistent, pervasive, and often compulsive pattern of excessive lying behavior that leads to clinically significant impairment of functioning in social, occupational, or other areas; causes marked distress; poses a risk to the self or others; and occurs for longer than 6 months" (p. 63).

  8. 99 Times People Came Across Such Confidently Wrong ... - AOL

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    This list is proof that people’s ‘I’m always right’ gene seems to have no bounds. The post 99 Times People Came Across Such Confidently Wrong Statements, They Just Had To Share Them (New ...

  9. Overconfidence effect - Wikipedia

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    The data show that confidence systematically exceeds accuracy, implying people are more sure that they are correct than they deserve to be. If human confidence had perfect calibration, judgments with 100% confidence would be correct 100% of the time, 90% confidence correct 90% of the time, and so on for the other levels of confidence.