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  2. Microaggression - Wikipedia

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    Roffee and Waling suggest that the issue arises, as occurs among many groups of people, because a person often makes assumptions based on individual experience, and when they communicate such assumptions, the recipient may feel that it lacks taking the second individual into account and is a form of microaggression.

  3. Objectification - Wikipedia

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    In social philosophy, objectification is the act of treating a person as an object or a thing. It is part of dehumanization , the act of disavowing the humanity of others. Sexual objectification , the act of treating a person as a mere object of sexual desire, is a subset of objectification, as is self-objectification , the objectification of ...

  4. Misanthropy - Wikipedia

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    Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, or distrust of the human species, human behavior, or human nature. A misanthrope or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings. Misanthropy involves a negative evaluative attitude toward humanity that is based on humankind's flaws .

  5. Physiognomy - Wikipedia

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    Physiognomy (from Greek φύσις (physis) 'nature' and γνώμων (gnomon) 'judge, interpreter') or face reading is the practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance—especially the face.

  6. Posthuman - Wikipedia

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    In critical theory, the posthuman is a speculative being that represents or seeks to re-conceive the human.It is the object of posthumanist criticism, which critically questions humanism, a branch of humanist philosophy which claims that human nature is a universal state from which the human being emerges; human nature is autonomous, rational, capable of free will, and unified in itself as the ...

  7. Caricature - Wikipedia

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    Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm (1896), taken from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).

  8. Dehumanization - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and the treatment of other people as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to humans. [4] In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as "less than" human is dehumanization. [5] Dehumanization is one form of incitement to genocide. [6]

  9. Art therapy - Wikipedia

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    Four-year-old's drawing of a person. Modeled after Goodenough's Draw-A-Man Test, childhood psychologist John Buck created the house-tree-person test in 1946. [68] In the assessment, the client is asked to create a drawing that includes a house, a tree and a person, after which the therapist asks several questions about each.