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  2. Attention seeking - Wikipedia

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    People are thought to engage in both positive and negative attention seeking behavior independent of the actual benefit or harm to health. In line with much research and a dynamic self-regulatory processing model of narcissism, motivations for attention seeking are considered to be driven by self-consciousness and thus an externalization of ...

  3. Histrionic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Histrionic personality disorder; Dramatic behavior is a key marker of histrionic personality disorder: Specialty: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry: Symptoms: Persistent attention seeking, dramatic behavior, rapidly shifting and shallow emotions, sexually provocative behavior, undetailed style of speech, and a tendency to consider relationships more intimate than they actually are.

  4. Compliance (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The need for validation can lead them to form relationships to gain attention and influence others. However, they discard relationships once they no longer serve purpose. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): People with NPD have inflated self-importance, hypersensitivity to criticism and a sense of entitlement that compels them to persuade ...

  5. Emotional validation - Wikipedia

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    Emotional validation is a process which involves acknowledging and accepting another individual's inner emotional experience, without necessarily agreeing with or justifying it, and possibly also communicating that acceptance. [1] It is a process that fosters empathy, strengthens relationships, and helps resolve conflicts.

  6. Subjective validation - Wikipedia

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    An example of subjective validation can be found in horoscopes, which often make vague, easily generalized personal statements, sometimes referred to as "Barnum statements", designed to apply to nearly any individual, [6] such as: "You have a great deal of unused capacity, which you have not turned to your advantage." This can cause one to ...

  7. Dependent personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people. This personality disorder is a long-term condition [1] in which people depend on others to meet their emotional and physical needs.

  8. Verification and validation - Wikipedia

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    Verification is intended to check that a product, service, or system meets a set of design specifications. [6] [7] In the development phase, verification procedures involve performing special tests to model or simulate a portion, or the entirety, of a product, service, or system, then performing a review or analysis of the modeling results.

  9. Murray's system of needs - Wikipedia

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    For example, the need for affiliation may drive a person to join a social organization. Needs are often influenced by environmental stimulus or "presses", another component of Murray's theory. Individual differences in levels of needs lead to the uniqueness of a person's personality; in other words, specific needs may be more important to some ...