The study also explains the lasting cost of guilt that a ghost feels, finding that even if the other party passively accepts the avoidance action, the terminator faces the lingering cost of knowing that he or she took the coward's way out of the relationship..
An instance of speech error is called a malapropism when a word is produced which is nonsensical or ludicrous in context, yet similar in sound to what was intended. Definitions differ somewhat in terms of the cause of the error.
What Is Bias? A bias is a tendency. Most biasesâlike preferring to eat food instead of paper clipsâare helpful. But cognitive shortcuts can cause problems when we're not aware of them and we apply them inappropriately, leading to rash decisions or discriminatory practices. Stereotype threat, for example, is the confirmation of negative stereotypes about another person's race, gender, group, and so on.