Sentences with phrase «psychological defense»

Denial is a private psychological defense mechanism against uncomfortable truth.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.

You should know that we human beings have mastered the ability to create our own psychological defense -LSB-...]

For topics where people might have strong opinions for political or ideological reasons, such as vaccination and autism, or human evolution, or climate change, there can be strong psychological defense mechanisms to learning a different point of view.

Well, neither do I, and with one aspect of what you say I agree: faith in God is used by many as a psychological defense mechanism, a lovely make - believe world to which sentimentally they retreat when they do not want to face life's stern realities.

Their hatred of your worldview, from an external and objective standpoint, is 100 % justified as a psychological defense mechanism.

I also think it was a bit of a psychological defense to let himself believe we were being silly and the baby is really fine.

More specifically, the aim was to study the effects of early family relationships on children's emotion regulation, psychological defense mechanisms, and the related biases in their social - emotional information processing (i.e. attention biases to emotional facial expressions).

: Psychological Defense Mechanisms and the Hidden Way they Shape Our Lives, offers not only keys to better self - understanding, but also, some surprising tools that can help writers grow and develop fuller characters.

It's a psychological defense mechanism.

An Adaptive Information Processing method of treating psychological defense will be presented, along with specific procedures to target chronic shame when it is serving as a psychological defense within an individual's dissociative personality structure.