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Those possessing these distorted characters resist changing their attitudes and core beliefs despite having plenty of insight and awareness. What they need and can benefit from are:

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*[[~~Boundaries_~~(Psychology)|limits]]

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*[[Boundaries (Psychology)|limits]]

*confrontation

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*and most especially [[~~ABC_Theory_of_Emotion~~#~~The_Extended_model~~|correction]]{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid."'' Proverbs 12:1, Holy Bible, [[New International Version]]®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®|group=note}}.

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*and most especially [[ABC Theory of Emotion#The Extended model|correction]]{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid."'' Proverbs 12:1, Holy Bible, [[New International Version]]®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®|group=note}}.

Cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approaches are the most appropriate in this regard.

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==The aggressive personalities==

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Among the most character-disordered personalities are covert-aggressive personalities, the more extreme cases of which are<ref name="Simon"/>:

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Among the most character-disordered personalities are covert-aggressive personalities, the more extreme cases of which are:<ref name="Simon"/>

*cult leaders,

*political extremists,

*Sunday night TV "success" peddlers

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*[[false prophet]]s<ref>{{cite web |title=Noah and The Last Days Movie (HD Official Full Version) |author=Ray Comfort |~~Publisher~~=Living Waters |date=25 March 2014

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*[[false prophet]]s<ref>{{cite web |title=Noah and The Last Days Movie (HD Official Full Version) |author=Ray Comfort |publisher=Living Waters |date=25 March 2014

|pages=5min:08sec |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7bPCYizcFM&feature=youtu.be&t=221 |quote=If you can just worship God through five dollars, or ten dollars, ... as God had prosper you, that's why I believe God prospers people. Satan gave me this message, ... I shouldn't say that.|accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref> and

*militant social activists.

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|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BvDSRwAACAAJ

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The notorious example of complete failure of applying the proper confrontation and limits towards someone exhibiting the traits of disturbed character with regard to ''political extremism'' is the attitudes of so-called Western powers towards the gradually increasing aggressive demands of [[Adolf Hitler]].{{#tag:ref|cf. two references

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* ''“The absolute [[pacifist]] is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice, and ideals.”'' [[Alfred North Whitehead |N.A. Whitehead]], February 17, 1938, shortly after the [[Anschluss]] of [[Austria]] by [[Nazi]] [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead |author=Lucien Price |publisher=David R. Godine |year=2001 |pages=93 |isbn=9781567921298 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1ONzgBFvGSAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Price+dialogues+of+Alfred+Whitehead&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=mOcaU9afIcXnygOumYCIAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Pacifist&f=false |quote=}}</ref>

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* ''“The absolute [[pacifist]] is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice, and ideals.”'' [[Alfred North Whitehead|N.A. Whitehead]], February 17, 1938, shortly after the [[Anschluss]] of [[Austria]] by [[Nazi]] [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead |author=Lucien Price |publisher=David R. Godine |year=2001 |pages=93 |isbn=9781567921298 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1ONzgBFvGSAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Price+dialogues+of+Alfred+Whitehead&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=mOcaU9afIcXnygOumYCIAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Pacifist&f=false |quote=}}</ref>

*''First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—''

:''Because I was not a Socialist.''

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:''Because I was not a Jew.''

:''Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.''

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:[[Martin Niemöller]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Martin Niemöller: "First They Came For The Socialists..." |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 |accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref>|group=note}} A few hours before the [[Führer]]’s ultimatum related to territorial claims in [[Sudetenland]] at the expense of [[Czechoslovakia|Czecho-Slovakia]] would have expired, [[Neville Chamberlain]], the Prime Minister of [[Great Britain]], asked Mussolini to "save the peace" by intervening. In his reply, "Herr Hitler" agreed to postpone his mobilization for twenty-four hours and invited Chamberlain to meet in conference at Munich. After Chamberlain brought the news to [[House of Commons (UK)|House of Commons]], the whole house burst into a roar of cheering. Men all round, except few remaining in their benches, were shouting: ''"Get up! Get up! Thank God for the Prime Minister!"'' One man who remained silent and seated—with his head sunk on his shoulders, his whole demeanor depicting something between anger and despair, was [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="Guinness">{{cite book|first=Os |last=Guinness|editor= Virginia Mooney Withrow|title=When No One Sees: Character and Leadership in an Age of Image|publisher=[http://www.ttf.org/ TheTrinityForum.org]|location=McLean, Virginia|year=2007|pages=~~73-77~~|isbn= 1-57683-159-0}}</ref>

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:[[Martin Niemöller]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Martin Niemöller: "First They Came For The Socialists..." |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 |accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref>|group=note}} A few hours before the [[Führer]]’s ultimatum related to territorial claims in [[Sudetenland]] at the expense of [[Czechoslovakia|Czecho-Slovakia]] would have expired, [[Neville Chamberlain]], the Prime Minister of [[Great Britain]], asked Mussolini to "save the peace" by intervening. In his reply, "Herr Hitler" agreed to postpone his mobilization for twenty-four hours and invited Chamberlain to meet in conference at Munich. After Chamberlain brought the news to [[House of Commons (UK)|House of Commons]], the whole house burst into a roar of cheering. Men all round, except few remaining in their benches, were shouting: ''"Get up! Get up! Thank God for the Prime Minister!"'' One man who remained silent and seated—with his head sunk on his shoulders, his whole demeanor depicting something between anger and despair, was [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="Guinness">{{cite book|first=Os |last=Guinness|editor= Virginia Mooney Withrow|title=When No One Sees: Character and Leadership in an Age of Image|publisher=[http://www.ttf.org/ TheTrinityForum.org]|location=McLean, Virginia|year=2007|pages=73–77|isbn= 1-57683-159-0}}</ref>

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Chamberlain believed Hitler when the latter vowed that restoring their beloved homeland to the mistreated Sudetendeutsche was his last territorial demand. The Prime Minister treated Czechoslovakia, a “faraway country,” only as the “Czech problem” on his desk and not as a land inhabited by real people. Churchill adopted a different attitude; he had studied Adolf Hitler’s career with intensity and was aware of the history of broken promises and “last territorial claims” including the [[Versailles Treaty]], the [[~~Causes_of_World_War_II~~#~~Munich_1938~~|Locarno Pact]], the [[Rhineland]] claims, and [[Anschluss|the claims to Austria]].

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Chamberlain believed Hitler when the latter vowed that restoring their beloved homeland to the mistreated Sudetendeutsche was his last territorial demand. The Prime Minister treated Czechoslovakia, a “faraway country,” only as the “Czech problem” on his desk and not as a land inhabited by real people. Churchill adopted a different attitude; he had studied Adolf Hitler’s career with intensity and was aware of the history of broken promises and “last territorial claims” including the [[Versailles Treaty]], the [[Causes of World War II#Munich 1938|Locarno Pact]], the [[Rhineland]] claims, and [[Anschluss|the claims to Austria]].

After the Four-Power Meeting began in [[Bavaria]], the Focus group was supposed to meet and draft and sign a telegram to the British Prime Minister adjuring him to make no further concessions at the expense of Czechoslovakia and warning him that if he did so he would have to fight the House of Commons on his return. Regrettably, one by one, the group drifted away. Some who had said they would come had not and finally declined to permit the use of their names, while others made excuses of lacking the approval from their parties. They refused to put their names to their principles. Churchill commented: ''"What are they made of? The day is not far off when it won’t be signatures we’ll have to give but lives—the lives of millions. Can we survive? Do we deserve to when there is no courage anywhere?"'', and Nicolson wrote in his diary: they ''"sat there gloomily realizing that nothing could be done…. So far as one can see, Hitler gets everything he wants."''<ref name="Guinness"/>

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A few days later, during the British Parliamentary Debate on the Munich Agreement, Duff Cooper described Hitler in his address as a dictator that does not understand the language of sweet reasonableness and that discards the old diplomatic methods and introduces a [[Gleichschaltung|new vocabulary into Europe]]. He criticized the approach in which “we were always told that on no account must we irritate Herr Hitler; it was particularly dangerous to irritate him before he made a public speech, because if he were so irritated he might say some terrible things from which afterwards there would be no retreat. It seems to me that Herr Hitler never makes a speech save under the influence of considerable irritation, and the addition of one more irritant would not, I should have thought, have made a great difference, whereas the communication of a solemn fact would have produced a sobering effect.”

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He suggested that urging the mobilization of the Fleet and the mailed fist would be the kind of language which would be easier for Herr Hitler to understand than the guarded language of diplomacy or the conditional clauses of the Civil Service. While Chamberlain considered this to be the one thing that would have ruined the peace mission, Cooper argued it would have been the one thing leading it to success and was highly critical of Chamberlain that he still believed he could rely upon the good faith of Hitler. Finally Cooper concluded that if he were a party to persuading, or even to suggesting to, the Czechoslovak government that they should accept the ultimatum, he should never be able to hold up his head again: “I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value—I can still walk about the world with my head erect.”<ref>{{cite web |title="The British Parliamentary Debate on the Munich Agreement"|work=Munich: Blunder, Plot, or Tragic Necessity?|chapter=The British Parliamentary Debate on the Munich Agreement: Duff Cooper, House Of Commons, October 3, 1938. |author= Dwight E. Lee |url= https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/munich.htm |accessdate=November 1, 2014 }}</ref>

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He suggested that urging the mobilization of the Fleet and the mailed fist would be the kind of language which would be easier for Herr Hitler to understand than the guarded language of diplomacy or the conditional clauses of the Civil Service. While Chamberlain considered this to be the one thing that would have ruined the peace mission, Cooper argued it would have been the one thing leading it to success and was highly critical of Chamberlain that he still believed he could rely upon the good faith of Hitler. Finally Cooper concluded that if he were a party to persuading, or even to suggesting to, the Czechoslovak government that they should accept the ultimatum, he should never be able to hold up his head again: “I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value—I can still walk about the world with my head erect.”<ref>{{cite web |title=The British Parliamentary Debate on the Munich Agreement|work=Munich: Blunder, Plot, or Tragic Necessity?|chapter=The British Parliamentary Debate on the Munich Agreement: Duff Cooper, House Of Commons, October 3, 1938. |author= Dwight E. Lee |url= https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/munich.htm |accessdate=November 1, 2014 }}</ref>

During Churchill's contribution to the debate, occasionally interrupted by screams ''"Rude! Rude!"'' and ''"nonsense,"'' he maintained that the utmost Chamberlain had been able to gain for Czechoslovakia and in the matters which were in dispute was that the German dictator, instead of snatching his victuals from the table, had been content to have them served to him course by course. Lord Maugham labeled Churchill an ''"agitator"'' who should be ''"shot or hanged."'' ''[[The Times]]'' reported that Churchill had ''"treated a crowded House to prophecies which made Jeremiah appear an optimist"'' and referred patronizingly to his ''"dismal sincerity."''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 |author=William Manchester, Paul Reid |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |year=2013 |isbn=9780345548634|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=Jz2NnQEACAAJ&dq=W.+ManchesterThe+Last+Lion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mxFVVIHGOMzhapXwgegP&redir_esc=y}}</ref>

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<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Patrice Debré<ref name="Debré"/> </div>

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In his historical lecture at Sorbonne University in 1864, [[Louis Pasteur]] denounced the doctrine of [[spontaneous generation]], supported by [[evolutionist]]s of his day<ref>{{cite web

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In his historical lecture at Sorbonne University in 1864, [[Louis Pasteur]] denounced the doctrine of [[spontaneous generation]], supported by [[evolutionist]]s of his day,<ref>{{cite web

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|quote=The Comte de Buffon was a French evolutionist and one of the best-known scientists of the 18th century. He served as director of the Royal Zoological gardens in Paris for more than 50 years. To a large extent Darwin based his theory on the works of de Buffon. One can see most of the teachings that Darwin employed in de Buffon’s wide-ranging 44-volume study Histoire Naturelle.

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|quote=The Comte de Buffon was a French evolutionist and one of the best-known scientists of the 18th century. He served as director of the Royal Zoological gardens in Paris for more than 50 years. To a large extent Darwin based his theory on the works of de Buffon. One can see most of the teachings that Darwin employed in de Buffon’s wide-ranging 44-volume study Histoire Naturelle. In his Histoire Naturelle, Buffon reveals himself as an exponent of the doctrine of the Great Chain of Being, with man being placed at the top of the Chain. ... Moreover, new creatures were constantly appearing at the bottom of the Chain, arising from inorganic matter through spontaneous generation...From that point of view, the concept we refer to as the theory of evolution was actually born with the ancient Greek myth of the Great Chain. There were many evolutionists before Darwin, and the most of their original ideas and so-called proofs were already to be found in the Great Chain of Being. With de Buffon and Lamarck the Great Chain of Being was presented to the scientific world in a new guise, whereupon it came to influence Darwin.

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In his Histoire Naturelle, Buffon reveals himself as an exponent of the doctrine of the Great Chain of Being, with man being placed at the top of the Chain. ... Moreover, new creatures were constantly appearing at the bottom of the Chain, arising from inorganic matter through spontaneous generation...From that point of view, the concept we refer to as the theory of evolution was actually born with the ancient Greek myth of the Great Chain. There were many evolutionists before Darwin, and the most of their original ideas and so-called proofs were already to be found in the Great Chain of Being. With de Buffon and Lamarck the Great Chain of Being was presented to the scientific world in a new guise, whereupon it came to influence Darwin.

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|quote=Early Life: 1851. Liberty in every shape was, in fact, an essential part of this stalwart old Jacobin's political creed, while in the domain of physiology and general science he was a convinced evolutionist long before that conception of the inevitable development of the universe became part of the common thought of the time. ...Clemenceau, entering upon his father's profession, with the benefit of the paternal knowledge and full of the inculcated readiness to probe all the facts of life to the bottom, took up his medical studies as a serious business, after having gone through the ordinary curriculum of a school at Nantes.

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|accessdate= December 17, 2013}}</ref>, as error.{{#tag:ref|cf. [[~~Experimental_science~~#~~Notable_examples~~|Experimental science: Notable examples]]|group=note}} From that time on, [[Georges Clemenceau]] was among those who became Pasteur's fierce opponents, holding his [[scientific discovery|scientific discoveries]] in disdain.<ref name="Debré"/> For twenty years Clemenceau, the future "Tiger"<ref>{{cite book

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|accessdate= December 17, 2013}}</ref> as error.{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Experimental science#Notable examples|Experimental science: Notable examples]]|group=note}} From that time on, [[Georges Clemenceau]] was among those who became Pasteur's fierce opponents, holding his [[scientific discovery|scientific discoveries]] in disdain.<ref name="Debré"/> For twenty years Clemenceau, the future "Tiger",<ref>{{cite book

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|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PCteAAAAIAAJ&q=Clemenceau+Tiger&dq=Clemenceau+Tiger&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=1pWvUq7iFoW0tAa0ioBI&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ}}</ref> waited for an opportunity to thwart Pasteur and his methods.<ref name="Debré"/> In 1886 Clemenceau joined the fiercest of Pasteur's adversaries who tried to discredit his method of antirabies vaccination whenever a death of patient occurred. They were ready to unleash hostile, passionate and skillful campaigns in a French press that was always looking for scandal and also in the scientific press, which had gained an important position in society since the first half of the nineteenth century. What was at stake here was the very future of the vaccines. Their fallacious arguments were of two kinds:<ref name="Debré"/>

*if the bitten patient who received the treatment did not develop rabies, the critics claimed that since the disease does not always become symptomatic, this was a spontaneous cure;

*if patient died after vaccination, they attributed the death either to rabies, which thus had not been cured, or worse yet, to the [[Immunization|inoculation]] itself.

The conclusion was always the same: Pasteur had not discovered anything, attributing the positive result to his method and harmful effect to external causes was not an option.{{#tag:ref|A similar approach known also as [[Damning the Alternatives]] is recorded in the Bible on different occasion: ''“18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”''<ref>{{cite web |title=Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV) |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+11%3A18-19&version=NIV |quote=New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.}}</ref>

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|group=note}} Pasteur however had no doubts about the effectiveness of his vaccines. He made sure that every last hostile article based on manipulative, aggressive and false accusations, whether in the general press{{#tag:ref|For example, the famous satirical periodical ''La Lanterne'' published a carefully crafted savaging of Pasteur under the title "''Rabies Attacks Medical Systems''," and ''La Figaro'' a violent diatribe against Pasteur's followers.<ref name="Debré"/>|group=note}} or in specialized journals, received a response either from him or his close associates such as Vulpian, in which they defended his findings and the conclusions he had drawn from them. In the face of these attacks he sometimes became tired, unwell and worn out by perpetual controversies and battles that he had to fight day after day, consuming his time that he could otherwise devote to scientific research. Instead of using the same underhand means he faced, Pasteur showed science in action and personified the march of progress. At the same time, Pasteur's aggressive adversaries were consumed by envy and "cast into the shadowy realm of the wicked", along with other archaic opponents of his method.<ref name="Debré">{{cite book |title=Louis Pasteur|author=Patrice Debré|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|place=Baltimore and London|year=1998|pages=149, 365, ~~447-456~~|isbn=978-0801-865299|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RzOcl-FLw30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Patrice+Debre+Louis+Pasteur&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=WpSvUvLLLYXYtAbtwICgBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tiger&f=false|quote=...two other witnesses, both hostile to Pasteur method. ...and a little doctor in a black frock coat by the name of Georges Clemenceau. The future Tiger was indeed a fierce opponent of Pasteur. ...}}</ref>

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|group=note}} Pasteur however had no doubts about the effectiveness of his vaccines. He made sure that every last hostile article based on manipulative, aggressive and false accusations, whether in the general press{{#tag:ref|For example, the famous satirical periodical ''La Lanterne'' published a carefully crafted savaging of Pasteur under the title "''Rabies Attacks Medical Systems''," and ''La Figaro'' a violent diatribe against Pasteur's followers.<ref name="Debré"/>|group=note}} or in specialized journals, received a response either from him or his close associates such as Vulpian, in which they defended his findings and the conclusions he had drawn from them. In the face of these attacks he sometimes became tired, unwell and worn out by perpetual controversies and battles that he had to fight day after day, consuming his time that he could otherwise devote to scientific research. Instead of using the same underhand means he faced, Pasteur showed science in action and personified the march of progress. At the same time, Pasteur's aggressive adversaries were consumed by envy and "cast into the shadowy realm of the wicked", along with other archaic opponents of his method.<ref name="Debré">{{cite book |title=Louis Pasteur|author=Patrice Debré|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|place=Baltimore and London|year=1998|pages=149, 365, 447–456|isbn=978-0801-865299|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RzOcl-FLw30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Patrice+Debre+Louis+Pasteur&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=WpSvUvLLLYXYtAbtwICgBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tiger&f=false|quote=...two other witnesses, both hostile to Pasteur method. ...and a little doctor in a black frock coat by the name of Georges Clemenceau. The future Tiger was indeed a fierce opponent of Pasteur. ...}}</ref>

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==See ~~Also~~==

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==See also==

*[[ABC Theory of Emotion]]

[[Category:Psychology]]

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