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Masculinity-Femininity refers to a personality trait indicating the extent to which a person possesses sextyped characteristics, with masculine characteristics at one end of the trait continuum and feminine characteristics at the other end.

Masked facies uUsed to describe the mask-like expression of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Masked grief reactions refer to one of the four (4) types of Complicated grief reactions identified by Worden (2002) in which individuals experience symptoms or behaviors that include the complete absence of grief, that cause the individuals difficulty but that they do not recognize as related to the loss.

Masking is defined as the technique of presenting a jumbled visual stimulus immediately after a target stimulus in order to stop the visual persistence of the target

Masking stimulus refers to a visual pattern that, when presented immediately after a visual stimulus, decreases a person’s ability to perceive the stimulus. This stops the persistence of vision, hence limits the effective duration of the stimulus.

Deutsch: Maslow / Español: Maslow / Português: Maslow / Français: Maslow / Italiano: Maslow

In the context of psychology, Maslow most commonly refers to Abraham Maslow, an influential American psychologist best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory in psychology proposing that certain needs dominate human motivation and behavior as they are met.

Abraham Maslow was a Humanistic psychologist who emphasized the innate human tendency toward self-actualization.

Masochism is defined as pleasure from one's own pain; seeking of pleasure from being subjected to pain. It focuses on receiving pain and humiliation as the preferred or exclusive method of sexual arousal and orgasm. Masochism is considered a sexual disorder, or paraphilia. Masochism is named after the 19th-century Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Masoch-ism)

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