Sentences with phrase «psychological defense mechanism»

Denial is a private psychological defense mechanism against uncomfortable truth.

It's a psychological defense mechanism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

To the extent that the Puritan and early republican notions of «the good» and «virtue» were too narrow, too bound up with repressive social and psychological mechanisms, too easily subverted to the defense of particular social arrangements, the utilitarian critique has been genuinely liberating.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

Mortality salience has the potential to cause worldview defense, a psychological mechanism that strengthens people's connection with their in - group as a defense mechanism.

According to Vaillant, these levels correlate roughly with stages of human psychological development, and certain defense mechanisms are more likely to develop at certain ages in this conception.

Polyvictimization and Psychological Distress in Early Adolescence: A Mediation Model of Defense Mechanisms and Coping Styles.

Projective identification is believed to be a primitive psychological process and is understood to be one of the more primitive defense mechanisms.