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.
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Originating WorkAnna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936) 1 Type of Phenomenon
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1. Wikipedia: Defence mechanism
WikipediaDefence mechanism, History sectionQuote, Defence mechanism, History section
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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