High Yield Behavioral Science

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avoiding personally unacceptable feelings by behaving in an attention-getting, often socially inappropriate, manner

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acting out

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unselfishly assisting others to avoid negative personal feelings

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altruism

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not believing personally intolerable facts about reality

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denial

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transfer of emotions from a personally unacceptable situation to one that is personally tolerable

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displacement

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mentally separating out a part of one's personality

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dissociation

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expression of feeling without causing discomfort

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humor

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unconsciously patterning one's behavior after that of someone who is more powerful

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identification

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using the mind's higher functions to avoid experiencing uncomfortable emotions

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intellectualization

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attributing one's own personally unacceptable feelings to others

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projection

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seemingly reasonable explanations are given for unacceptable or irrational feelings

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rationalization

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unacceptable feelings are denied and opposite attitudes and behavior adopted; unconscious hypocrisy

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reaction formation

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childlike patterns of behavior appear under stress

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regression

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believing people or events are either all bad or all good because of intolerance of ambiguity

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splitting

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an unconscious, unacceptable impulse is rerouted in a socially acceptable way

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sublimation

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unwanted feelings are consciously put aside but not repressed

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suppression