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  2. Parasocial interaction - Wikipedia

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    However these one-sided relationships can also foster an impractical body image, can reduce self-esteem, increase media consumption, and media addiction. [ 2 ] Parasocial relationships are seen frequently with post-retirement aged media users due to high television consumption and loss of social contacts or activities.

  3. Janus - Wikipedia

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    To us, it represents the beginning of one's acceptance of self, the beginning of freedom from guilt, and the eventual ending of self-loathing and fear over one's SM desires. And third, Janus is the Roman god of war—the war we fight against stereotypes commonly held against us.

  4. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.

  5. Alter ego - Wikipedia

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    The existence of "another self" was first fully recognized in the 18th century, when Anton Mesmer and his followers used hypnosis to separate the alter ego. [3] These experiments showed a behavior pattern that was distinct from the personality of the individual when he was in the waking state compared with when he was under hypnosis.

  6. Unrequited love - Wikipedia

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    [2] However, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contends that "indispensable...to the lover is his unrequited love, which he would at no price relinquish for a state of indifference". [3] Unrequited love stands in contrast to redamancy , the act of reciprocal love, which is the tendency for people to like others who express liking for them.

  7. Ambigram - Wikipedia

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    Technically, there are two times more combinations of letters involved in a hetero-ambigram than in a homo-ambigram. For example, the 180° rotational ambigram "yeah" contains only two pairs of letters: y/h and e/a, whereas the heterogram "yeah / good" contains four : y/d, e/o, a/o, and h/g.

  8. Self-contradiction - Wikipedia

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    Auto-antonym, a word with multiple meanings of which one is the reverse of another; Oxymoron, a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposing meanings within a word or phrase that creates an ostensible self-contradiction; Paradox, a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation

  9. Double consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Double consciousness is the dual self-perception [1] experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society.The term and the idea were first published in W. E. B. Du Bois's autoethnographic work, The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, in which he described the African American experience of double consciousness, including his own.