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  2. Defamiliarization - Wikipedia

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    Defamiliarization or ostranenie (Russian: остранение, IPA: [ɐstrɐˈnʲenʲɪjə]) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so they could gain new perspectives and see the world differently.

  3. Mere-exposure effect - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Fechner conducted the earliest known research on the effect in 1876. [2] Edward B. Titchener also documented the effect and described the "glow of warmth" felt in the presence of something familiar; [3] however, his hypothesis was thrown out when results showed that the enhancement of preferences for objects did not depend on the individual's subjective impressions of how familiar the ...

  4. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    The titles of some books are self-explanatory. Good books on critical thinking commonly contain sections on fallacies, and some may be listed below. DiCarlo, Christopher (2011). How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions. Prometheus Books. ISBN 9781616143978. Engel, S. Morris (1994).

  5. Uncanny - Wikipedia

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    The uncanny is thus "an idea beyond one's ken", [8] something outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Freud noted the German unheimlich as the antonym of heimlich , or the "homely". [ 4 ] A more literal rendering of the psychoanalytic concept of the uncanny would therefore be "unhomeliness".

  6. Derealization - Wikipedia

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    Derealization is an alteration in the perception of the external world, causing those with the condition to perceive it as unreal, distant, distorted or in other words falsified. Other symptoms include feeling as if one's environment is lacking in spontaneity, emotional coloring, and depth. [ 1 ]

  7. Semantic change - Wikipedia

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    Egregious – Originally described something that was remarkably good (as in Theorema Egregium). The word is from the Latin egregius "illustrious, select", literally, "standing out from the flock", which is from ex—"out of" + greg—(grex) "flock". Now it means something that is remarkably bad or flagrant.

  8. Neophobia - Wikipedia

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    Food neophobia in humans has been described as the fear of eating new or unfamiliar foods. It is a common symptom of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder but is not in itself a disorder. Food neophobia is particularly common in toddlers and young children.

  9. Social facilitation - Wikipedia

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    In 1920, when asked to write out as many words as possible in response to a given word, 93% of participants produced more words in the presence of another person than alone. [22] However, when this study was replicated with individuals who stuttered when they spoke, 80% of the participants produced more words when alone rather than in the ...