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Suggestibility. Suggestibility is the quality of being inclined to accept and act on the suggestions of others. One may fill in gaps in certain memories with false information given by another when recalling a scenario or moment. Suggestibility uses cues to distort recollection: when the subject has been persistently told something about a past ...
Sexual suggestiveness. Sexual suggestiveness is visual, verbal, written or behavioral material or action with sexual undertones implying sexual intent in order to provoke sexual arousal. [1][2][3][4] There are variations in the perception and display of sexual suggestiveness, including but not limited to gender, culture and generation.
Suggestive question. A suggestive question is one that implies that a certain answer should be given in response, [1][2] or falsely presents a presupposition in the question as accepted fact. [3][4] Such a question distorts the memory thereby tricking the person into answering in a specific way that might or might not be true or consistent with ...
Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person solely as an object of sexual desire. Objectification more broadly means treating a person as a commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity. Objectification is most commonly examined at the level of a society, but can also refer to the behavior of individuals and ...
Innuendo. A male cat paying a "call" on a female cat, who then serves up kittens, insinuating that the "results" of children is predicated on a male "catcall". An innuendo is a hint, insinuation or intimation about a person or thing, especially of a denigrating or derogatory nature. It can also be a remark or question, typically disparaging ...
Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms.
t. e. Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, "circle in proving"; [1] also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. [2] Circular reasoning is not a formal logical fallacy, but a pragmatic defect in an argument whereby the premises are just as much in need of ...
Linguistics. In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted. [1] Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians.