Fight-or-Flight Response (FFR)
Fight-or-flight response (FFR) or acute stress response, also chronic stress: Fight-or-flight response is the body’s automatic, near-instantaneous physiological reaction
Fearful-Avoidant Attachment
Fearful-avoidant attachment — one of four adult attachment styles, described in attachment theory—is a desire for intimacy, coupled with a strong fear of reje
Five-Factor Model of Personality
The five-factor model of personality is a widely recognized method for assessing personality, according to the big five personality traits, with each trait on a spectrum from po
Executive Functioning (EF)
Executive Functioning (EF), or Self-Regulation Deficits, is the ability to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different,
Entitlement
Entitlement is the belief in deserving special treatment without cause or reason, even at the expense of another. It’s visible in narcissism: the impatient person who fee
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Emotional Intelligence (EI) was coined by researchers Peter Salavoy and John Mayer in their 1990 article, “Emotional Intelligence,” Imagination, Cognition, and Per
Emerging Adulthood
Emerging adulthood, a term coined in 2001 by psychology professor Jeffrey Arnett, is a proposed developmental phase roughly spanning ages 18–25, during which identity for
Ego-Threat
Ego-threat is a broad concept that occurs “when favorable views about oneself are questioned, contradicted, impugned, mocked, challenged or otherwise put in jeopardy,
Ego Injury
Ego injury, also known as Narcissistic Injury or Narcissistic Wound, is a significant setback, loss, or rejection, which can trigger secondary narcissism (withdrawing from the e
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