Wednesday Evening Society

an informal group of Sigmund Freud’s disciples who met with him for instruction in psychoanalysis, beginning in 1902. The society evolved into the larger Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1910. See also Viennese School.

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Psychology term of the day

November 22nd 2024

precompetition anxiety

increased cognitive and physiological arousal before a competition. Precompetition anxiety may facilitate or inhibit performance, depending on the performer’s perception of readiness or apprehension. See debilitative anxiety; facilitative anxiety.