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Agreeableness is an asset in situations that require getting along with others. Compared to disagreeable persons, agreeable individuals display a tendency to perceive others in a more positive light. Because agreeable children are more sensitive to the needs and perspectives of others, they are less likely to suffer from social rejection ...
"Nice guy" is an informal term, commonly used with either a literal or a sarcastic meaning, for a man.In the literal sense, the term describes a man who is agreeable, gentle, compassionate, sensitive, and vulnerable. [1]
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.
Cooperativeness is a personality trait that concerns how much a person is generally agreeable in their relations with other people as opposed to aggressively self-centered and hostile. [1] It is one of the "character" dimensions in Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory. Cloninger described it as relating to individual differences in ...
Acquiescence bias, also known as agreement bias, [1] is a category of response bias common to survey research [2] in which respondents have a tendency to select a positive response option [1] [3] or indicate a positive connotation disproportionately more frequently.
An agreeable subset is a subset of items that is considered, by all people in a certain group, to be at least as good as its complement. Finding a small agreeable subset is a problem in computational social choice. [1] [2] An example situation in which this problem arises is when a family goes on a trip and has to decide which items to take.
When decisions fail, people subjectively disfigure consequences to make themselves appear more agreeable. [30] [31] This distortion occurs when people try to psychologically safeguard themselves in an attempt to rationalize their actions. People try to justify actions taken previously in the past which leads them to take a failing course of action.
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...