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  2. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, [a] or congeniality bias[2]) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. [3] People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when ...

  3. Information technology - Wikipedia

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    Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage. [ 1 ] IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). [ 2 ] An information technology system (IT system) is generally an information system, a communications ...

  4. Social support - Wikipedia

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    Social support. Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network. These supportive resources can be emotional (e.g., nurturance), informational (e.g., advice), or companionship (e.g., sense of belonging); tangible ...

  5. Supporting character - Wikipedia

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    Supporting character. A supporting character is a character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary storyline, but is important to the plot/protagonist, [1] and appears or is mentioned in the story enough to be more than just a minor character or a cameo appearance. Sometimes, supporting characters may develop a complex backstory of ...

  6. Clinical decision support system - Wikipedia

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    Clinical decision support system. A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a health information technology that provides clinicians, staff, patients, and other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information to help health and health care. CDSS encompasses a variety of tools to enhance decision-making in the clinical workflow.

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  8. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    SentiWordNet, a resource for supporting opinion mining applications obtained by tagging all the WordNet 3.0 synsets according to their estimated degrees of positivity, negativity, and neutrality. [63] ColorDict, is an Android application to mobiles phones that use Wordnet database and others, like Wikipedia.

  9. Peer support - Wikipedia

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    Peer support occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. [1] It commonly refers to an initiative consisting of trained supporters (although it can be provided by peers without training), and can take a number of forms such as peer mentoring, reflective listening (reflecting content and/or feelings), or counseling.