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  2. Idealization and devaluation - Wikipedia

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    In the latter, the individual has a problem with object constancy and sees others as all good or all bad, thus bolstering idealization and devaluation. At this stage idealization is associated with borderline pathology. At the other end of the continuum, idealization is said to be a necessary precursor for feelings of mature love. [8]

  3. Trichoptilosis - Wikipedia

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    Trichoptilosis (from the Greek τριχο- tricho-"hair" and the New Latin ptilosis "arrangement of feathers in definite areas" from the Greek πτίλον ptilon "feather"), schizotrichia, and informally split ends, is the splitting or fraying of the hair-shaft due to excessive heat and mechanical stress. [1]

  4. Split Ends - Wikipedia

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    Split Ends may refer to: Split ends, the splitting or fraying of hair, also known as trichoptilosis; Split end, a type of wide receiver in American and Canadian ...

  5. How to fix split ends (without cutting them) - AOL

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    How to fix split ends without cutting them -- because there's no hair enemy as fierce and unyielding as the much-dreaded split end.

  6. Splitting (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Splitting, also called binary thinking, dichotomous thinking, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, or thinking in extremes, is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole.

  7. Homo economicus - Wikipedia

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    The term Homo economicus, or economic man, is the portrayal of humans as agents who are consistently rational and narrowly self-interested, and who pursue their subjectively defined ends optimally. It is a wordplay on Homo sapiens , used in some economic theories and in pedagogy .

  8. Behavioral economics - Wikipedia

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    Behavioral economics is the study of the psychological (e.g. cognitive, behavioral, affective, social) factors involved in the decisions of individuals or institutions, and how these decisions deviate from those implied by traditional economic theory. [1] [2] Behavioral economics is primarily concerned with the bounds of rationality of economic ...

  9. Selfishness - Wikipedia

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    With the emergence of a commercial society, Bernard Mandeville proposed the paradox that social and economic advance depended on private vices—on what he called the sordidness of selfishness. [ 8 ] Adam Smith with the concept of the invisible hand saw the economic system as usefully channelling selfish self-interest to wider ends. [ 9 ]