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A curated list of adages, psychological syndromes and behaviour explaining aphorisms.

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Add Conformity and results from various conformity experiments

• Conformity is a huge subject in psychology, and it might not be a good idea to put everything related to conformity in the same entry.
• The first entry related to conformity might be called "Group Conformity Effects", and it must contain references to Asch Line Judgement, Sherif's experiment

Add Pygmalion effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect

Add The walking corpse syndrome

The "walking corpse syndrome" or the "Cotard's Delusion"

People with Cotard’s syndrome believe that they have either died or been mutilated in some improbable manner such as having all of their blood drained or their organs removed. Yet other patients show delusions of immortality.
The condition is most common among schizophrenics and people who’ve suffered head trauma. In one famous case, a young man who hit his head in a motorcycle accident in Scotland left the hospital convinced he was dead from either septicemia or AIDS. Shortly afterward, when his mother took him to South Africa, he came to believe that his soul had been sent to hell.

Reference-http://all-that-is-interesting.com

Add Cotard delusion

A very rare mental illness where the patient thinks he/she is dead or is missing some of his/her organs

Add Hypochondria

Add Synesthesia

Synesthesia
This neurological phenomenon occurs when stimulation of one sense leads to involuntary experiences in another sense or a “union of the senses,” where for example taste and sound are joined together. Some people experience color when they hear sounds or read words and may be able to answer a question like "What color is A?"
Reference-https://www.alternet.org

Add Prosopagnosia

Found in Liking what you see (A documentary) by Ted Chiang

Add Zeigarnik effect

an useful resource

You probably have seen this already: https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d

Add discussion related to this list to the contributing page

• https://twitter.com/_icyflame/status/630298201329786880
• sindresorhus/awesome#229

Add Chekhov's Law

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun
• Found this in this book: Girls on Fire - Robin Wasserman

Add Multiple Personality Syndrome

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), is the existence in an individual of two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. At least two of these personalities are considered to routinely take control of the individual's behavior, and is usually a reaction to trauma as a way to help a person avoid bad memories.

R: http://www.psychologistanywhereanytime.com/disorders_psychologist_and_psychologists/psychologist_multiple_personaility_disorder.htm

Add Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania is a mental disorder where a person feels the urge to pull their own hairs out. Scalp hair, eyebrows, body hairs ad even pubic hairs, they just want to get rid of them. Pulling the hairs out gives them a sense of relief. This disorder becomes dangerous when the person starts eating those hairs thus developing some serious diseases.
Reference-www.trendsnhealth.com

Add Clinical lycanthropy

Clinical lycanthropy
In this disorder a person believes that he can transform into, has transformed into or is a non-human animal. This is one of the most rarest disorder and most of the times people believe he can transform into a werewolf.
A person shows symptoms like growling, walking on hands and legs, biting objects or improper eating habits.
Reference-https://www.trendsnhealth.com

Add Munchausen syndrome

• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Add Boanthropy

The mental illness where the patient thinks he is a bovine

Add Fundamental attribution error

Add Golem Effect

• the corollary of the Pygmalion effect

Add Gaming Disorder

WHO plans to add Gaming Disorder in their diagnostic manual, International Classification of Diseases, in its next release in 2018

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201712/video-gaming-disorder-is-now-mental-health-condition

Add Placebo effect

Placebo effect
Patients given secretly ineffectual or simulated treatment will perceive that their condition has improved, or that it will improve, because they believe the treatment has benefited or will benefit them.
Reference-www.dailywritingtips.com

Add Ganser's Syndrome

An extremely rare dissociative disorder, also known as the balderdash syndrome as the patient gives absurd answers to trivial questions due to extreme stress.

Add Hawthorne effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

Add Mere-exposure effect

Mere-exposure effect
The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. In social psychology, this effect is sometimes called the familiarity principle.
Reference -https://en.wikipedia.org

Add Godwin's Law

• Inside the Adage section

Add Kleptomania

Refer to #68 to get started. That PR itself is not satisfactory.