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Don't think sealed indictments are terrible
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Dorothy is haveing spasms of anxiety
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Minimisation is a type of deception[1] involving denial coupled with rationalisation in situations where complete denial is implausible. It is the opposite of exaggeration. Minimisation—downplaying the significance of an event or emotion—is a common strategy in dealing with feelings of guilt.[2] Words associated with minimisation include:
belittling
discounting
downplaying
euphemism
making light of
meiosis
minification
minimise
trivialising
underplaying
understating
Minimisation may take the form of a manipulative technique:
observed in abusers and manipulators to downplay their misdemeanors when confronted with irrefutable facts.[3][4]
observed in abusers and manipulators to downplay positive attributes (talents and skills etc.) of their victims.[5]
'Typical psychological defences exhibited by stalkers and guilty criminal suspects include denial, rationalisation, minimisation and projection of blame onto the victim'.[6]
A variation on minimisation as a manipulative technique is "claiming altruistic motives" such as saying "I don't do this because I am selfish, and for gain, but because I am a socially aware person interested in the common good".[7]
Minimisation may also take the form of cognitive distortion:
that avoids acknowledging and dealing with negative emotions by reducing the importance and impact of events that give rise to those emotions.
that avoids conscious confrontation with the negative impacts of one's behavior on others by reducing the perception of such impacts.
that avoids interpersonal confrontation by reducing the perception of the impact of others' behavior on oneself.
Examples
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saying that a taunt or insult was only a joke
a customer receiving a response to a complaint to a company for poor service being told that complaints like his from other customers were very rare when in fact they are common
suggesting that there are just a few bad apples or rogues in an organisation when in reality problems are widespread and systemic
School bullying sometimes minimised as a prank
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School bullying is one form of victimisation or physical abuse which has sometimes been unofficially encouraged, ritualised or even minimised as a sort of prank by teachers or peers. The main difference between pranks and bullying is establishment of power inequity between the bully and the victim that lasts beyond the duration of the act.
A scene in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail involving the Black Knight character, demonstrates an absurd level of minimisation. For example, the knight's response to his having his left arm severed is "It's just a flesh wound." Compare with the Monty Python Dirty Fork sketch, which is the opposite extreme of absurdity (catastrophisation).
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