confirmational bias

Choice, Validation, and Being Poly for Effective vs Ineffective Reasons

much_ado Jun 08, 2009 13:58

I've been thinking a lot lately about choice, especially in how it relates to validation in relationships, which in turn relates to how people self-soothe (or don't) their anxieties through either self-validation or other-validation. this in turn has lead me to examine some of my own motivations through the years for selecting relationships, both ( Read more... )

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