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  2. Intensive pronoun - Wikipedia

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    An intensive pronoun (or self-intensifier) adds emphasis to a statement; for example, "I did it myself."While English intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves) use the same form as reflexive pronouns, an intensive pronoun is different from a reflexive pronoun because it functions as an adverbial or adnominal modifier, not as an argument of ...

  3. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...

  4. Reflexive pronoun - Wikipedia

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    magam (myself) magad (yourself) maga (himself/herself) magunk (ourselves) magatok (yourselves) maguk (themselves) Thus formed, these reflexive pronouns are in the nominative (i.e. subject) case and can take any case ending or postposition: magamnak (for myself), magunk elÅ‘tt (in front of ourselves), magát (himself/herself (acc.)).

  5. Self-reflection - Wikipedia

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    Self-reflection is the ability to witness and evaluate one's own cognitive, emotional, and behavioural processes. In psychology, other terms used for this self-observation include "reflective awareness" and "reflective consciousness", which originate from the work of William James.

  6. Self-love - Wikipedia

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    Self-love, defined as "love of self" or "regard for one's own happiness or advantage", [1] has been conceptualized both as a basic human necessity [2] and as a moral flaw, akin to vanity and selfishness, [3] synonymous with amour-propre, conceitedness, egotism, narcissism, et al.

  7. Wikipedia:A picture of you - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia (like its sister projects) uses images that document the things we write about, that includes people. Biography articles benefit from a photograph of the subject, and images can break up long sections of text in other articles, making them more attractive, and easier to understand for people whose English or reading skills are limited.

  8. Self-justification - Wikipedia

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    However, a reminder that she is a healthy person who exercises regularly is actually more likely to increase feelings of dissonance. [failed verification] [5] In support of this idea, research shows that in low-threat situations, people with high self-esteem are less likely to engage in self-justification strategies than those with low self ...

  9. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Autodidacts are self-taught [1] humans who learn a subject-of-study's aboutness through self-study. [2] [3] This educative praxis (process) may involve, complement, or be an alternative to formal education.