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  2. Hortative - Wikipedia

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    The term hortative dates to 1576, from Late Latin hortatorius "encouraging, cheering", from hortatus, past participle of hortari "exhort, encourage", intensive of horiri "urge, incite, encourage". When encouraging others it becomes exhortative while when including the speaker it becomes cohortative.

  3. Helping behavior - Wikipedia

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    Workers and people from the nearby town helping repair a water borehole in Ghana Helping behavior refers to voluntary actions intended to help others, with reward regarded or disregarded. It is a type of prosocial behavior (voluntary action intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals, [ 1 ] such as sharing, comforting ...

  4. Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    The process of which enables individuals/groups to fully access personal or collective power, authority and influence, and to employ that strength when engaging with other people, institutions or society. In other words, "Empowerment is not giving people power, people already have plenty of power, in the wealth of their knowledge and motivation ...

  5. Encouragement - Wikipedia

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    In other projects Wikisource; Wikidata item; ... Encouragement may refer to: Incitement, the encouragement of another person to commit a crime; Encouragement (therapy)

  6. Adaptive behavior - Wikipedia

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    For example, avoiding situations because you have unrealistic fears may initially reduce your anxiety, but it is non-productive in alleviating the actual problem in the long term. Maladaptive behavior is frequently used as an indicator of abnormality or mental dysfunction , since its assessment is relatively free from subjectivity .

  7. Enabling - Wikipedia

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    Revictimising the abuser's other victims with behaviour such as gaslighting, denial, or scapegoating. Triangulation (playing the part in an abuse triangle as either victim or protector, but never seeing themselves as perpetrator). Keeping secrets for the abuser such as affairs, extramarital children, alcoholism, gambling, incest.

  8. Groupthink - Wikipedia

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    Groupthink is sometimes stated to occur (more broadly) within natural groups within the community, for example to explain the lifelong different mindsets of those with differing political views (such as "conservatism" and "liberalism" in the U.S. political context [7] or the purported benefits of team work vs. work conducted in solitude). [8]

  9. Sportsmanship - Wikipedia

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    When elite sporting role models do not encourage sportsmanship this can encourage other people to act in similar ways to the athletes that they look up to and idolize. For example, if an individual looked up to an athlete who was drinking excessively, they may see this as acceptable behavior. [ 4 ]