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  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency for people of one race to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own. Egocentric bias: Recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g., remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as bigger than it really was. Euphoric recall

  3. Illusory superiority - Wikipedia

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    One is the ambiguity of the word "average". It is logically possible for nearly all of the set to be above the mean if the distribution of abilities is highly skewed. For example, the mean number of legs per human being is slightly lower than two because some people have fewer than two and almost none have more.

  4. Dual-coding theory - Wikipedia

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    The ability to code a stimulus two different ways increases the chance of remembering that item compared to if the stimulus was only coded one way. There has been controversy to the limitations of the dual-coding theory. Dual-coding theory does not take into account the possibility of cognition being mediated by something other than words and ...

  5. Human communication - Wikipedia

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    Cross-cultural communication (communication across cultures): This allows different people from different locations, gender, and culture, in a group to feed off of each other's ideas to form something much bigger and better. "Culture is a way of thinking and living whereby one picks up a set of attitudes, values, norms, and beliefs that are ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega: ‘I Probably Could Have Used My ...

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    I think, oftentimes, I’m such a rambler,” she tells Vanity Fair. “I think it was hard because I felt like had I represented the situation better, it probably would’ve been received better.

  8. Tautology (language) - Wikipedia

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    "Wandering planet" – the word planet comes from the Greek word 'πλανήτης (planḗtēs), which itself means "wanderer". "If you know, you know", a common English phrase. "A pair of two"; by its nature, a pair is two items, so "a pair of two" is redundant. "What's for you won't go by you", a Scottish proverb that is tautological

  9. Pence says 'I think we'll have better choices' than ... - AOL

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    "I think we’ll have better choices in the future," Pence told ABC's David Muir. "The people of this country actually get along pretty well once you get out of politics, and I think they want to ...