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    found to exhibit academic procrastination, but for different reasons. Students from Western cultures tend to procrastinate in order to avoid doing worse...
    57 KB (6,323 words) - 08:45, 10 May 2024
  • Down Soon" and "Like It Tends to Do", McAlpine continues to "muse about [the] pervasive feeling" of thinking she has something to lose. On "Movie Star"...
    30 KB (2,800 words) - 15:03, 15 May 2024
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    and assumptions have to be made, the results produced by different organizations for the same country are not hard facts and tend to differ, sometimes substantially...
    61 KB (1,632 words) - 18:32, 25 May 2024
  • psychologist Rob Brotherton summarises it as "When something big happens, we tend to assume that something big must have caused it". It has been suggested...
    13 KB (1,613 words) - 21:47, 23 April 2024
  • Something to Believe in: Is Kurt Vonnegut the Exorcist of Jesus Christ Superstar? is a 1977 book by Robert L. Short, which discusses the deleterious effects...
    4 KB (660 words) - 02:36, 10 January 2022
  • feelings tend to be on a continuous scale rather than a particular threshold value. The gradient is most intense with objects that we perceive to be more...
    17 KB (1,956 words) - 01:16, 25 May 2024
  • The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one...
    11 KB (1,387 words) - 10:58, 13 May 2024
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    Individualists Tending to the Wild (Spanish: Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje, ITS) is a self-defined eco-extremist group that emerged in Mexico...
    130 KB (10,849 words) - 18:51, 5 March 2024
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    bank card (something the user possesses) and a PIN (something the user knows) allows the transaction to be carried out. Two other examples are to supplement...
    40 KB (4,511 words) - 09:10, 24 May 2024
  • two-letter words tend to be function words such as I, at, he, if, of, or, etc. As a consequence of the rule, "content words" tend to have at least three...
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  • someone to do or not do something. As a noun promise means a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something. As a verb it means to commit...
    14 KB (1,966 words) - 03:36, 9 May 2024
  • situation where people tend to pick the opposite of what something or someone is saying or doing because of how it is presented to them. Typically, the...
    53 KB (7,100 words) - 12:34, 13 May 2024
  • fallacy, is a logical fallacy of the form: We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. The politician's fallacy was identified in...
    4 KB (471 words) - 23:41, 2 June 2023
  • common to understand normative claims as claims about reasons. As Derek Parfit explains: We can have reasons to believe something, to do something, to have...
    16 KB (1,996 words) - 11:49, 16 May 2024
  • in this sense are not binding under the principle of stare decisis, but tend to have a strong persuasive effect, by virtue of having been stated in an...
    3 KB (392 words) - 20:17, 13 April 2024
  • referred to as axiology. Ethical value denotes something's degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do, or at least...
    37 KB (4,651 words) - 09:52, 23 April 2024
  • Faith (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    teachings of religion". According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, faith has multiple definitions, including "something that is believed especially with...
    90 KB (10,079 words) - 04:05, 12 May 2024
  • indecisiveness. Although attitudes tend to guide attitude-relevant behavior, those held with ambivalence tend to do so to a lesser extent. The less certain...
    47 KB (6,091 words) - 10:11, 5 April 2024
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    like to mix it up and we have done that before, but I always tend to listen to all of one type of thing or the other. So, I figured we should do a double...
    17 KB (1,405 words) - 22:26, 18 May 2024
  • "Failure really can be an asset if what you're trying to do is improve, learn or do something new. It's the preceding feature of nearly all successes...
    28 KB (4,008 words) - 08:52, 18 December 2023
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