projected jealousy

a type of behavior in which individuals who are unfaithful, or who repress impulses to be unfaithful, accuse their partners of infidelity, thereby projecting their own impulses.

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November 25th 2024

gender constancy

a child’s emerging sense of the permanence of being a boy or a girl, an understanding that occurs in a series of stages: gender identity, gender stability, and gender consistency.