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  2. Psychoanalytic literary criticism - Wikipedia

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    Freud wrote several important essays on literature, which he used to explore the psyche of authors and characters, to explain narrative mysteries, and to develop new concepts in psychoanalysis (for instance, Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva and his influential readings of the Oedipus myth and Shakespeare's Hamlet in The Interpretation of Dreams).

  3. Ben Franklin effect - Wikipedia

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    The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them. An explanation for this is cognitive dissonance . People reason that they help others because they like them, even if they do not, because their minds struggle to maintain logical consistency between their actions and perceptions.

  4. Dan Korem - Wikipedia

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    It was during this time that he focused on the psychological and social aspects of the subject of deception itself. He also developed an interest in claims of paranormal powers and has written about the tricks of psychics and others who fraudulently claimed to have powers. Korem is a theist and states that he embraces the Christian faith.

  5. 8 ways to read someone's body language - AOL

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    Psychologically, crossed legs or arms signal that a person is mentally, emotionally, and physically blocked off from what's in front of them. It's not intentional, which is why it's so revealing. 2.

  6. Narrative psychology - Wikipedia

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    Narrative psychology is not a single or well-defined theory. It refers to a range of approaches to stories in human life and thought. [3] In narrative psychology, a person's life story becomes a form of identity as how they choose to reflect on, integrate and tell the facts and events of their life not only reflects, but also shapes, who they ...

  7. Norman N. Holland - Wikipedia

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    The First Modern Comedies (1959), the first of Holland's major publications, is a New Critical study of the three major writers of Restoration comedy. [8] This publication was followed by The Shakespearean Imagination (1964), [9] a guide to reading Shakespeare's works and Holland's New Critical analyses of thirteen major plays of Shakespeare.

  8. What happens when you read people Hitler quotes disguised as ...

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    Except instead of telling them the actual source of the quotes, they read them out of a faux Trump pamphlet, and let them decide for themselves whether they supported the idea's of the infamous ...

  9. Psychology of reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Psychological experiments on how humans and other animals reason have been carried out for over 100 years. An enduring question is whether or not people have the capacity to be rational. Current research in this area addresses various questions about reasoning, rationality, judgments, intelligence , relationships between emotion and reasoning ...