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A person (pl.: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
Brat: A term used to describe a badly-behaved or spoiled child. Burden: A term (also ableist) of contempt or disdain used to describe old and infirm or disabled people who either don't contribute to society or who contribute in a limited way; this lack of contribution may be imposed or facilitated by social stigma and other factors.
Transference (German: Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which repetitions of old feelings, attitudes, desires, or fantasies that someone displaces are subconsciously projected onto a here-and-now person. [1] [2] [3] Traditionally, it had solely concerned feelings from a primary relationship during childhood. [4] [3]
For example, there may be people who have amnesia, but if reliable sources don't regularly describe the person as having that characteristic, they should not be added to the category. The final rung rule described below also applies to disability, or other medical or psychological-based intersection categories. Such categories should not be the ...
Since making inferences requires cognitive effort, anthropomorphism is likely to be triggered only when certain aspects about a person and their environment are true. Psychologist Adam Waytz and his colleagues created a three-factor theory of anthropomorphism to describe these aspects and predict when people are most likely to anthropomorphize ...
Plus, his persistent portrayal of mainstream media outlets as “the enemy of the people,” the same exact phrase used by Hitler to target Jewish people. Add to that poisonous phrase 45/47’s ...
Clothing items, of course, can be notoriously hard for people to part with — particularly clothes we used to be able to fit into. "It really can be a challenge," says Trager. "Often, we tell ...
A norm gives a person a rule of thumb for how they should behave. However, a rational person acts according to the rule only if it is beneficial for them. The situation can be described as follows. A norm gives an expectation of how other people act in a given situation (macro). A person acts optimally given the expectation (micro).