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An alternate ending (or alternative ending) is an ending of a story that was considered, or even written or produced, but ultimately discarded in favour of another resolution. Generally, alternative endings are considered to have no bearing on the canonical narrative.
There are alternative names for the same concept. There is an entry in "A Dictionary of Psychology – Oxford Reference [ 3 ] " for "closed question" for the concept described here. Statistics for search queries [ 4 ] show "closed question" is coming more often than "close ended question" and "closed-ended question".
The term "End of History Illusion" originated in a 2013 journal article [1] by psychologists Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel Gilbert, and Timothy Wilson detailing their research on the phenomenon and leveraging the phrase coined by Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book of the same name. The article summarizes six studies on more than 19,000 participants between ...
Psychohistory is a social science that analyzes human behavior by combining psychology, history, and other social sciences, while also being a amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences and the humanities. [1] Its proponents claim to examine the "why" of history, especially the difference between stated intention and actual ...
The ending of Lost is the most misunderstood series finale in television history – but it almost drew to a close in a far different way.. Remember that flashback which sees Ben being taught ...
There is one more "false ending" in which the protagonist commits suicide ahead of the finale, and another secret ending which only becomes available after waiting five minutes before choosing a dialogue option. Mass Effect 3's endings were cause for controversy. Players felt their character choices felt inconsequential and criticized the game ...
Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...
A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language, often passing as folk wisdom, intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance.