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Alternatively, consumers might change attitude, such as re-evaluating price in relation to external reference-prices or associating high prices and low prices with quality. Minimisation reduces the importance of the elements of the dissonance; consumers tend to minimise the importance of money, and thus of shopping around, saving, and finding a ...
Splitting, also called binary thinking, dichotomous thinking, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, or thinking in extremes, is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole.
An example of pseudo-listening is trying to multitask by talking on the phone while watching television or completing work. [5] Pseudo-listening is the most ineffective way to communicate because after the conversation one will not have retained much of the information that was said.
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Social cryptomnesia, a failure by people and society in general to remember the origin of a change, in which people know that a change has occurred in society, but forget how this change occurred; that is, the steps that were taken to bring this change about, and who took these steps. This has led to reduced social credit towards the minorities ...
Taking stock of equities as we head toward the end of April, investors are facing mixed messages from Wall Street. After a year that defied recession expectations, the first quarter of 2024 built ...
An investigation into the working conditions of legal counsel at major companies found a troubling increase in the rate of bullying that could be compared to domestic abuse.
A control freak can become distressed when someone causes a deviation in the way that they prefer to perform tasks. [1] Someone who tries to control how other people perform tasks, while having no good reason for interfering, can also be considered a control freak. [2] This expression was introduced around the 1960s. [3]