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Contagioned
Contagioned Con*ta"gioned, a.
Affected by contagion.
Contagionist
Contagionist Con*ta"gion*ist, n.
One who believes in the contagious character of certain
diseases, as of yellow fever.
Psychical contagionPsychic Psy"chic, Psychical Psy"chic*al, a. [L. psychicus,
Gr. ?, fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. ? to blow: cf. F.
psychique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living
principle in man.
Note: This term was formerly used to express the same idea as
psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have
employed it to mark the difference between psychh` the
living principle in man, and pney^ma the rational or
spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word
describes the human soul in its relation to sense,
appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished
from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do
with the supersensible world. --Heyse.
2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and
diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.
Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of
nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and
hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate
the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen.
Psychical contagion, the transference of disease,
especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force
of example.
Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which
treats of mental diseases.
Meaning of Contagion from wikipedia
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Contagion may
refer to:
Contagious disease Social contagion, the
spontaneous spread...
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Contagion is a 2011
American medical disaster thriller film
directed by
Steven Soderbergh. Its
ensemble cast
includes Matt Damon,
Laurence Fishburne,...
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Social contagion involves behaviour, emotions, or
conditions spreading spontaneously through a
group or network. The
phenomenon has been
discussed by...
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Emotional contagion is a form of
social contagion that
involves the
spontaneous spread of
emotions and
related behaviors. Such
emotional convergence can...
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Financial contagion refers to "the
spread of
market disturbances –
mostly on the downside – from one
country to the other, a
process observed through...
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Contingent contagionism was a
concept in 19th-century
medical writing and
epidemiology before the germ theory, used as a
qualified way of
rejecting the...
- The
contagion heuristic is a
psychological heuristic which follows the law of
contagion and the law of similarity,
leading people to
avoid contact with...
- In
social psychology,
hysterical contagion occurs when
people in a
group show
signs of a
physical problem or illness, when in
reality there are psychological...
- The law of
contagion is a
superstitious folk
belief that
suggests that once two
people or
objects have been in contact, a
magical link
persists between...
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Behavioral contagion is a form of
social contagion involving the
spread of
behavior through a group. It
refers to the
propensity for a
person to copy...
