Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The strong dislike felt by one group for another.  

Pertaining to a mentally introverted, self- centered condition in which reality is excluded children have little affect, showing either no emotional response or very inappropriate response. Affected by, or relating to, autism.  

In sociology, those elected officials of a community who are mandated to make decisions on behalf of the people; common council, board of supervisors, board of health, state legislature, mayor, and governor, power structure.  

A group of personal attributes and social attributes held to constitute a distinct personality.  

Parents who believe children’s behavior should be closely regulated and who are likely to use power-assertive discipline methods, permissive parents; authoritative parents. Parents who allow their children a great deal of freedom, but at the same time, consistently enforce some rules and standards of conduct, authoritarian parents; permissive parents.    

A person who behaves toward subordinates in a controlling and dictatorial manner, authoritarianism.  

A philosophy of encouraging and upholding authority against individual freedom.  

A person who assumes that human relations are irrelevant to getting work done, and that people are necessarily indolent, self-centered, and uncooperative; and that they require strong direction and control if discipline is to be maintained, authoritarian leader.  

In research, reassurance that the evidence is what it purports to be. For example, that a test score represents a sample of a particular individual’s behavior and not that of someone else.  

In psychology, a positive self-identity that underlies a person’s more temporary mood identities.