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  2. Little Albert experiment - Wikipedia

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    Albert was about one year old at the end of the experiment, and he reportedly left the hospital shortly thereafter. [8] Though Watson had discussed what might be done to remove Albert's conditioned fears, he chose not to attempt such desensitization with Albert, and it is thought likely that the infant's fear of furry things continued post-experimentally.

  3. Jean de l'Ours - Wikipedia

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    Jean de l'Ours. An artist's visualization with bear's ears. [a]Jean de l'Ours (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ də luʁs]) [b] or John the Bear, [1] John of the Bear, [2] John-of-the-Bear, [3] John Bear, is the leading character in the French folktale Jean de l'Ours classed as Type 301B [c] in the Aarne–Thompson system; it can also denote any tale of this type.

  4. Zick Rubin - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Michael "Zick" Rubin (born 1944) is an American social psychologist, lawyer, and author. [1] He is "widely credited as the author of the first empirical measurement of love," [2] for his work distinguishing feelings of like from feelings of love via Rubin's Scales of Liking and Loving.

  5. Oedipus complex - Wikipedia

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    He described the complex as a young boy's hatred or desire to eliminate his father and to have sex with his mother. Freud introduced the term "Oedipus complex" in a 1910 article titled A Special Type of Choice of Object made by Men. [20] [2] It appears in a section of this paper describing what happens after a boy first becomes aware of ...

  6. Ben Franklin effect - Wikipedia

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    The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them. An explanation for this is cognitive dissonance . People reason that they help others because they like them, even if they do not, because their minds struggle to maintain logical consistency between their actions and perceptions.

  7. The Chocolate Touch - Wikipedia

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    John Midas is a young boy with an obsessive love of confectionery, especially chocolate. Dr. Cranium, the Midas' family doctor, warns John that his health is poor and that he is to eat only foods that are conducive to a healthy body, much to the boy's disgruntlement.

  8. Crispin: The Cross of Lead - Wikipedia

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    In 1377 A.D. England, a 13-year-old boy, known only as Asta's Son, lives as a peasant in the village of Stromford. The village is part of the territory of the feudal Lord Furnival, which, in Furnival's absence, is under the control of the steward, John Aycliffe. When his mother dies, Asta's Son is left alone, as he has no other known relatives.

  9. Necrophilia in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The 2011 video game L.A. Noire features a fictional necrophiliac named John Ferdinand Jamison. In the case "The Studio Secretary Murder," Ferdinand confesses to kissing and putting lipstick on the corpse of murder victim Evelyn Summers, much to the disgust of the player, Cole Phelps', partner, Rusty Galloway, who punches Jamison in the face two ...