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  2. Hypergamy - Wikipedia

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    Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as "dating up" or "marrying up" [1]) is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person dating or marrying a spouse of higher social status or sexual capital than themselves. The antonym "hypogamy" [a] refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status (colloquially ...

  3. Self-selection bias - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, self-selection bias arises in any situation in which individuals select themselves into a group, causing a biased sample with nonprobability sampling.It is commonly used to describe situations where the characteristics of the people which cause them to select themselves in the group create abnormal or undesirable conditions in the group.

  4. Top, bottom, and versatile - Wikipedia

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    The man lying on his back is the "top" and the other man is the "bottom" In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during sexual activity, especially between two (or more) males. A top is usually a person who penetrates, a bottom is usually one who receives penetration, and someone who is versatile engages

  5. Continuous performance task - Wikipedia

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    The first version of a CPT was developed and reported in the Journal of Consulting Psychology in 1956 by psychologists Haldor Rosvold, Allan Mirsky, Irwin Sarason, Edwin Bransom, and Lloyd Beck. Their research, supported by Veterans Administration and National Institute of Mental Health grants, demonstrated that compared to adults and children ...

  6. Slop - Wikipedia

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    Slop or SLOP may refer to: Slop (clothing) AI slop, a derogatory term describing low-quality artificial intelligence-generated content or media; Slop is the common name for household food scraps; Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure, in aviation, a procedure for avoiding collisions; a popular term for Backlash (engineering)

  7. Emotional self-regulation - Wikipedia

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    Younger adults have been found to be more successful than older adults in practicing “cognitive reappraisal” to decrease negative internal emotions. [92] On the other hand, older adults have been found to be more successful in the following emotional regulation areas: [92] Predicting the level of “emotional arousal” in possible situations

  8. Emotional detachment - Wikipedia

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    Despair by Edvard Munch (1894) captures emotional detachment seen in Borderline Personality Disorder. [1] [2]In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, is a condition or state in which a person lacks emotional connectivity to others, whether due to an unwanted circumstance or as a positive means to cope with anxiety.

  9. Self-harm - Wikipedia

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    In the United States up to 4% of adults self-harm with approximately 1% of the population engaging in chronic or severe self-harm. [129] The onset of self-harm tends to occur around puberty, although scholarship is divided as to whether this is usually before puberty or later in adolescence. Meta-analyses have not supported some studies ...