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Status quo bias, the tendency to hold to the current situation rather than any alternative situation, to avoid risk and loss (loss aversion). [76] [77] Has been shown to affect various important economic decisions, for example, a choice of car insurance or electrical service. System justification, the tendency to defend and bolster the status ...
Enmeshment is a concept in psychology and psychotherapy introduced by Salvador Minuchin to describe families where personal boundaries are diffused, sub-systems undifferentiated, and over-concern for others leads to a loss of autonomous development. [1] According to this hypothesis, by being enmeshed in parental needs, trapped in a discrepant ...
The same image viewed by white, blue, green, and red lights reveals different hidden numbers. Steganography (/ ˌ s t ɛ ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ ɡ r ə f i / ⓘ STEG-ə-NOG-rə-fee) is the practice of representing information within another message or physical object, in such a manner that the presence of the concealed information would not be evident to an unsuspecting person's examination.
The Perverse Triangle was first described in 1977 by Jay Haley [6] as a triangle where two people who are on different hierarchical or generational levels form a coalition against a third person (e.g., "a covert alliance between a parent and a child, who band together to undermine the other parent's power and authority".) [7] The perverse triangle concept has been widely discussed in ...
Dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family affects familial ties and creates conflicts in the same family space. A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly. Children that grow up in such families may think such a ...
Subliminal messages produce only one-tenth of the effects of detected messages and the findings related to the effects of subliminal messaging were relatively ambiguous. [40] Participants’ ratings of positive responses to commercials were not affected by subliminal messages in the commercials.
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Family estrangement is the loss of a previously existing relationship between family members, through physical and/or emotional distancing, often to the extent that there is negligible or no communication between the individuals involved for a prolonged period. Estrangement may result from the direct interactions between those affected ...