Associated psychologist links a phenomenon to the researcher most closely connected with identifying or naming it. Wikipedia notes that, with Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman "established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases," work that named many of the phenomena studied today. This grouping traces a phenomenon back to the person whose work first described it.
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Originating WorkAnna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936) 1 Associated Psychologist
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In the first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of her father, Sigmund Freud.
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