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  2. Boomerang effect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, the boomerang effect, also known as "reactance", refers to the unintended consequences of an attempt to persuade resulting in the adoption of an opposing position instead. It is sometimes also referred to as "the theory of psychological reactance ", stating that attempts to restrict a person's freedom often produce an ...

  3. Imperial boomerang - Wikipedia

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    The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques ...

  4. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    Boomerang effect; Bouba/kiki effect; Bystander effect; Cheerleader effect; Cinderella effect; Cocktail party effect; Contrast effect; Coolidge effect; Crespi effect; Cross-race effect; Curse of knowledge; Diderot effect; Dunning–Kruger effect; Einstellung effect; Endowment effect; Face superiority effect; False fame effect; False-consensus ...

  5. Boomerang effect - Wikipedia

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    Boomerang effect may refer to: Boomerang effect (psychology) in social psychology; Imperial boomerang in sociology and political science; Unintended consequences in ...

  6. List of effects - Wikipedia

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    Boomerang effect (psychology) (social psychology) (psychology) Bouba/kiki effect (cognitive science) Bowditch effect (medicine) Bradley effect (American political terms) (elections in the United States) (political history of the United States) (political neologisms) (politics and race) (polling) (psephology) (racism)

  7. Emotion classification - Wikipedia

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    Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science. Researchers have approached the classification of emotions from one of two fundamental viewpoints: [citation needed] that emotions are discrete and fundamentally different constructs

  8. Emotionality - Wikipedia

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    The James-Lange theory of emotion was proposed by psychologist William James and physiologist Carl Lange. This theory suggests that emotions occur as a result of physiological responses to outside stimuli or events. For example, this theory suggests that if someone is driving down the road and sees the headlights of another car heading toward ...

  9. Discrete emotion theory - Wikipedia

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    Discrete emotion theory is the claim that there is a small number of core emotions. For example, Silvan Tomkins (1962, 1963) concluded that there are nine basic affects which correspond with what we come to know as emotions: interest , enjoyment , surprise , distress , fear , anger , shame , dissmell (reaction to bad smell) and disgust .