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  2. Defensive attribution hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The defensive attribution hypothesis (or bias, theory, or simply defensive attribution) is a social psychological term where an observer attributes the causes for a mishap to minimize their fear of being a victim or a cause in a similar situation.

  3. Attribution (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The defensive attribution hypothesis is a social psychological term referring to a set of beliefs held by an individual with the function of defending themselves from concern that they will be the cause or victim of a mishap. Commonly, defensive attributions are made when individuals witness or learn of a mishap happening to another person.

  4. Victim mentality - Wikipedia

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    become defensive, even when others try to help [13] be categorizing: tending to divide people into "good" and "bad" with no gray zone between them. [7] avoid taking risks [14] exhibit learned helplessness [15] [16] be self-abasing [17] Feeling the importance of seeing as a victim by others [18] You tend to put others at fault with an outcome of ...

  5. Masking (personality) - Wikipedia

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    "Masking" is the act of concealing one's true personality, as if behind a metaphorical, physical mask. In psychology and sociology, masking, also known as social camouflaging, is a defensive behavior in which an individual conceals their natural personality or behavior in response to social pressure, abuse, or harassment.

  6. Identification with the Aggressor - Wikipedia

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    Identification with the Aggressor (German: Identifizierung mit dem Angreifer) [1] is one of the forms of identification conceptualized by psychoanalysis.Specifically, it is a defence mechanism that designates the assumption of the role of the aggressor and his functional attributes or the imitation of his aggressive and behavioral mode, when a psychological trauma poses the hopeless dilemma of ...

  7. Psychological projection - Wikipedia

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    Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. [1] It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world. [1]

  8. Supreme Court to hear case on definition of a woman - AOL

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    Meanwhile women’s groups also say the ruling will have an impact on a large group - literally half of the population. They say it could affect the running of single-sex services and spaces.

  9. Defence mechanism - Wikipedia

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    In the first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), [9] Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of her father, Sigmund Freud: repression, regression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against one's own person, reversal into the opposite, and sublimation or displacement.