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  2. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol can, however, lead indirectly to the death of brain cells in two ways. First, in chronic, heavy alcohol users whose brains have adapted to the effects of alcohol, abrupt ceasing following heavy use can cause excitotoxicity leading to cellular death in multiple areas of the brain.

  3. Miscommunication - Wikipedia

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    Miscommunication is a lack of alignment of agents' intellectual state, especially when they diverge on the outcomes of communication. [2] The type of miscommunication can now be classified as to the source of the non-alignment about the communicative act. [3]

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency for people of one race to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own. Egocentric bias: Recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g., remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as bigger than it really was. Euphoric recall

  5. Scientific misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    Preconceived notions are thinking about a concept in only one way. Specially heat, gravity, and energy. Once a person knows how something works it is difficult to imagine it working a different way. Nonscientific beliefs are beliefs learned outside of scientific evidence. For example, one's beliefs about the history of world based on the bible.

  6. 'Stigma, fear and misperceptions': How racial disparities ...

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    Knight also points to one study that looked at socio-demographic disparities of care for people with epilepsy and found that where they seek care, rather than patient characteristics, matters.

  7. Interpersonal communication - Wikipedia

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    Misinterpretation: Without a physical face-to-face interaction, miscommunication can frequently occur when communicating through a mediated medium. Messages are sent verbally and non-verbally when using interpersonal communication—discerning one's attitudes when it is more complicated due to the lack of feedback and expressions.

  8. While OCD is an actual mental health condition, the term has been co-opted to describe times when someone has a strong preference for things being a certain way. Here's what OCD means.

  9. Wikipedia:Base names should not redirect to disambiguated ...

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    This page in a nutshell: The base name of an ambiguous title should not redirect to a page with the base name plus a parenthetical disambiguator (e.g., Foo should not redirect to Foo (bar)); if the disambiguated title is deemed the primary topic, it should be moved to the base name instead.