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Tendency to feel anger toward and to seek to inflict harm upon a person or group.

The fundamental dispositions and traits of humans. (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)

A rare aberrant human behavior involving consumption of excrement.

Continuous sequential changes which occur in the physiological and psychological functions during the life-time of an individual.

The emotional attachment of individuals to animals.

Encompasses any situation where there is interchange between human(s) and animal(s) at an individual or cultural level. These interactions are divers…

The desire for FOOD generated by a sensation arising from the lack of food in the STOMACH.

A state of increased receptivity to suggestion and direction, initially induced by the influence of another person or oneself.

The part of the personality structure which harbors the unconscious instinctive desires and strivings of the individual.

A process by which an individual unconsciously endeavors to pattern himself after another. This process is also important in the development of the p…

Chaotic concept of self wherein one's role in life appears to be an insoluble dilemma often expressed by isolation, withdrawal, rebellion and extremi…

Ability to identify another individual by their facial, vocal, and other bodily features or distinguishing characteristics such as BODY HEIGHT; EYE C…

Coordinate set of non-specific behavioral responses to non-psychiatric illness. These may include loss of APPETITE or LIBIDO; disinterest in ACTIVITI…

The use of mental images produced by the imagination as a form of psychotherapy. It can be classified by the modality of its content: visual, verbal,…

A new pattern of perceptual or ideational material derived from past experience.

The mimicking of the behavior of one individual by another.

A method for extinguishing anxiety by a saturation exposure to the feared stimulus situation or its substitute.

A particular kind of learning characterized by occurrence in very early life, rapidity of acquisition, and relative insusceptibility to forgetting or…

An act performed without delay, reflection, voluntary direction or obvious control in response to a stimulus.

Low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target, in violation of norms for mutual respect.

Those psychological characteristics which differentiate individuals from one another.

A process of differentiation having for its goal the development of the individual personality.

Any observable response or action of a neonate or infant up through the age of 23 months.

Choosing to not obtain knowledge even if having the information could be to one's benefit.

How information is gathered in personal, academic or work environments and the resources used.

The interference with or prevention of a behavioral or verbal response even though the stimulus for that response is present; in psychoanalysis the u…

Projective tests utilizing ink blots to which a subject responds. They are used in personality diagnosis.

A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act, the person was laboring under such a defect of r…

Stereotyped patterns of response, characteristic of a given species, that have been phylogenetically adapted to a specific type of situation.

The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.