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Flirtomatic was an online flirting and social networking service for people connected to the Internet via mobile phone or PC. Operated by Handmade Mobile Entertainment, Flirtomatic was named the number one mobile dating site in the U.S. in a study by the mobile measurement company Ground Truth.
Transference ( German: Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which repetitions of old feelings, attitudes, desires, or fantasies that someone displaces are subconsciously projected onto a here-and-now person. [1] [2] [3] Traditionally, it had solely concerned feelings from a primary relationship during childhood.
In mate selection psychology, psychodynamics is defined as the study of the forces, motives, and energy generated by the deepest of human needs. [9] In general, psychodynamics studies the transformations and exchanges of "psychic energy" within the personality. [5] A focus in psychodynamics is the connection between the energetics of emotional ...
Psychophysiology. Psychophysiology (from Greek ψῡχή, psȳkhē, "breath, life, soul"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. [1] While psychophysiology was a general broad field of research in the 1960s and 1970s ...
Co-regulation. Co-regulation (or coregulation) is a term used in psychology. It is defined most broadly as a "continuous unfolding of individual action that is susceptible to being continuously modified by the continuously changing actions of the partner". An important aspect of this idea is that co-regulation cannot be reduced down to the ...
In the ego psychology model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual desires; the superego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic agent that mediates between the instinctual desires of the id and the critical superego; Freud compared the ego (in its relation to the id) to a man on horseback: the rider must harness and direct the ...
Simplified diagram of the aromantic and asexual spectra. Aromanticism is defined as "having little or no romantic feeling towards others: experiencing little or no romantic desire or attraction". [9]
In experimental psychology, a stimulus is the event or object to which a response is measured. Thus, not everything that is presented to participants qualifies as stimulus. For example, a cross mark at the center of a screen is not said to be a stimulus, because it merely serves to center participants' gaze on the screen.