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ambivalent Applied to apparently confused behaviour by an animal, arising most commonly from a conflict produced by impulses to behave in contradictory ways (e.g. to fight or to flee). Ambivalent behaviour may be alternate (i.e. repeatedly switching between the two responses) or simultaneous, causing the animal to freeze.
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Political ambivalence towards the Parti Quebecois and its electoral consequences, 1970-2003.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: Political ambivalence towards the Parti Quebecois remains...by analysts. Yet the notion of ambivalence is central in Zaller's new synthesis...the nature of mass opinions. The ambivalence towards the Parti Quebecois stems...
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Ambivalence, Autonomy, and Organ Sales
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...that persons my experience volitional ambivalence, a condition in which the will is irreconcilably...organ sales would create volitional ambivalence in many of those who opt to sell an...sell an organ. I begin by describing ambivalence of the will in some influential philosophical...
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Ambivalence in psychotherapy
Magazine article from: American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...understanding of resistant ambivalence. A hypnotherapeutic...that is absent are ambivalences of people who might...These might include ambivalences about the time, cost...in the book about ambivalences clients may have about...the central role of ambivalence in the quandaries...
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Personality and ambivalence in decisions about becoming parents.(Report)
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...difficult to make, and individuals may face ambivalence between hoped-for positive and feared...analyzed whether personality is related to ambivalence in parenthood decisions and with coping with ambivalence. In the first study, high levels of...
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Examining conflict between components of attitudes: ambivalence and inconsistency are distinct constructs
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...also been suggested that the amount of ambivalence and inconsistency between and within...paper, we discuss the relation between ambivalence and inconsistency, and their effects...Esses, 1996), we conclude that ambivalence and inconsistency are distinct constructs...
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A phenomenological investigation of the experience of ambivalence.
Magazine article from: Journal of Phenomenological Psychology; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT Ambivalence, broadly defined as feeling more...range of psychological processes. Ambivalence is experienced in close relationships...on the meaning of the experience of ambivalence by explicating the organizational...
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Examining conflict between components of attitudes: Ambivalence and inconsistency are distinct constructs
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...also been suggested that the amount of ambivalence and inconsistency between and within...paper, we discuss the relation between ambivalence and inconsistency, and their effects...Esses,1996), we conclude that ambivalence and inconsistency are distinct constructs...
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"I am not Complaining"-Ambivalence Construct in Schizoid Personality Disorder
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...indicated the intrapsychic dynamics of ambivalence in schizoid disorder, and it has been...literature on psychopathology. Schizoid ambivalence refers to contrasting feelings in patients...and theoretical descriptions of the ambivalence construct in the schizoid personality...
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The utility of open-ended measures to assess intergroup ambivalence
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...ended measures for assessing intergroup ambivalence. Forty - two Canadian undergraduates...in order to determine their degree of ambivalence toward Native Peoples, French Canadians...support for the open - ended measure of ambivalence. The advantages of the open - ended...
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Social welfare attitudes and ambivalence about the role of government.(Report)
Magazine article from: Politics & Policy; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...States are fairly common; second, ambivalence has consequences for people's opinions...observed negative relationship between ambivalence and social welfare liberalism is especially...attitudes concerning social welfare. Ambivalence results when an individual simultaneously...
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Ambivalence
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
AMBIVALENCE Ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting feelings and tendencies...compulsion). In Totem and Taboo (1912-13a) he adopted the term "ambivalence" proposed by Bleuler in the text of his conference published in...
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ambivalence
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ambivalence , coexistence of two opposing drives...that there were normal instances of ambivalence, such as the feeling, after performing...acting. In Freudian psychoanalysis, ambivalence was described as feelings of love and...
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Afterlife in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...As Empirical Taboo and the Consequent Ambivalence Human consciousness cannot access one...when speaking about the cognitive ambivalence of death, this entry refers to the...the one emerging from the cognitive ambivalence of death. However, while such experiences...
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Taboo
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...God in Hebrew. "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence," the second chapter of Totem and...38]). Freud associated taboo with ambivalence from the start. As early as the preface...in the chapter "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence," the existence of a primal ambivalence...
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Fatherhood
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...through his children, as well as his ambivalence toward his own dead father, Sigmund...and feared. It condenses conflicts of ambivalence and the castration anxiety. Fatherhood...ego, while showing how to overcome ambivalence through identification with the father...
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