dramatization

1. attention-getting behavior, such as exaggerating the symptoms of an illness to make it appear more important than the occurrence of the same illness in another person.

2. in psychoanalytic theory, the expression of repressed wishes or impulses in dreams. —dramatize vb.

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January 18th 2025

consistent missing

in parapsychology experiments using Zener cards or similar targets, the phenomenon in which a participant’s “calls,” or guesses, are consistently wrong or significantly below chance expectations. Some people attribute such systematic failure to processing error or a conscious or nonconscious reluctance to confirm psychic ability. See also psi-missing.