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Cognitive Phenomenon

Type of phenomenon separates effects that are adaptive from those that are simply errors. Wikipedia notes that "cognitive biases may initially appear to be negative, some are adaptive," since a quick judgment can sometimes be more useful than a perfectly accurate one. This grouping lets a visitor tell a helpful mental shortcut apart from a genuine distortion.

65 entries

Branch of Psychology

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Diagnostic Chapter

Alcohol Myopia

Boanthropy

Body Integrity Dysphoria

Bouffee Delirante

Brain Fag Syndrome

Capgras Delusion

Cherophobia

Clinical Lycanthropy

Cognitive Distortion

Cognitive Reappraisal

Cotard Delusion

De Clerambault's Syndrome

Defensive Pessimism

Depressive Realism

Diagnostic Overshadowing

Doomscrolling

Executive Dysfunction

Femmephobia

Flashback (Psychology)

Flow State

Fregoli Delusion

Freudian Slip

Ganser Syndrome

Glass Delusion

Glossophobia

God Complex

Ideas of Reference

Inferiority Complex

Interpretive Bias

Intrusive Thought

Jerusalem Syndrome

Koro Syndrome

Kufungisisa

Locura

Locus of Control

Martha Mitchell Effect

Medical Students' Disease

Messiah Complex

Mindset

Morgellons

Mortality Salience

Necrophobia

Neophobia

Nocebo Effect

Nostalgia

Othello Syndrome

Ovsiankina Effect

Pain Catastrophizing

Persecutory Delusion

Positivity Offset

Proteus Effect

Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome

Qigong Psychotic Reaction

Reduplicative Paramnesia

Rorschach Test

Savant Syndrome

Self-Deception

Somatization

Thought Broadcasting

Thought Insertion

Thought-Action Fusion

Truman Show Delusion

Ukuthwasa

Wannarexia

Waxy Flexibility