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  2. Personal misperceptions

Personal misperceptions

  • Personal illusions

Nature

Decades of psychological wisdom have established contact with reality as a hallmark of mental health. The well-adjusted person engages in accurate reality testing, whereas the individual whose vision is clouded by illusion is regarded as vulnerable to mental illness.

Counter-claim

Certain illusions are adaptive for mental health and well-being. Unrealistically positive self-evaluations, unrealistic optimism and an exaggerated sense of control or mastery are part of normal thinking. The only people who tend to see themselves as other see them are moderately depressed, low in self-esteem, or both. Positive illusions help make each individual's world a warmer and more active and beneficent place in which to live.

Broader

Misperception
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Paranoia
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Value

Misperception
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Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
  • Psychology » Psychology
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    Language
    English
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024