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  2. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    Ambiguity effect; Assembly bonus effect; Audience effect; Baader–Meinhof effect; Barnum effect; Bezold effect; Birthday-number effect; Boomerang effect; Bouba/kiki effect

  3. Feeling - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from the German Gefühl, meaning "feeling." A number of experiments have been conducted in the study of social and psychological affective preferences (i.e., what people like or dislike). Specific research has been done on preferences, attitudes, impression formation, and decision-making.

  4. Loaded language - Wikipedia

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    They are strictly bound to moral values leading to value judgements and potentially triggering specific emotions. For this reason, they have an emotive dimension. In the modern psychological terminology, we can say that these terms carry "emotional valence", [ 9 ] as they presuppose and generate a value judgement that can lead to an emotion.

  5. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    Water, for example, is a sentient being of the first order, as it is considered to possess only one sense, that of touch. [22] Sentience in Buddhism is the state of having senses. In Buddhism, there are six senses, the sixth being the subjective experience of the mind. Sentience is simply awareness prior to the arising of Skandha. Thus, an ...

  6. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    One example of sensationalism in science news was in 1998 when Andrew Wakefield published a study in The Lancet showing a link between MMR vaccines and autism [33] with it reaching the news media via press releases and a news conference [34] getting widespread coverage despite the publication being flawed and the article later being debunked ...

  7. Value theory - Wikipedia

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    The word axiology has its origin in the ancient Greek terms ἄξιος (axios, meaning ' worth ' or ' value ') and λόγος (logos, meaning ' study ' or ' theory of '). [7] Even though the roots of value theory reach back to the ancient period , this area of thought was only conceived as a distinct discipline in the late 19th and early 20th ...

  8. Mindset - Wikipedia

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    A well-known example of a contrasting mindset is fixed versus growth. A mindset refers to an established set of attitudes of a person or group concerning culture, values, philosophy, frame of reference, outlook, or disposition. [1] [2] It may also arise from a person's worldview or beliefs about the meaning of life. [3]

  9. Affect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The word [clarification needed] comes from the German Gefühl, meaning "feeling". [4] A number of experiments have been conducted in the study of social and psychological affective preferences (i.e., what people like or dislike). Specific research has been done on preferences, attitudes, impression formation, and decision-making.