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psychology

noun as in study of the mind; emotional and mental constitution

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For some scholars, these actions appear rooted in the psychology of an unrestrained politician with an overdeveloped ego.

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Having stripped away most of the documentary’s narration and sit-down interviews with Kerr’s family and friends, the film barely explores anyone’s psychology — and Blunt’s railroaded Dawn loses her chance to speak for herself.

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Over grungy guitars and a slapping drum beat, Taylor taunts them with a touch of reverse psychology.

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This exploitation was of course opportunistic in the extreme, but it also revealed something fundamental about totalitarian psychology.

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So says psychology professor Andrew Stevenson in his 2023 book “The Psychology of Travel.”

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