Glossary C

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Contact is a term used in criminal justice that refers to an investigator who maintains contact with the undercover officer. Contact may also be defined as the relationship between a person and others. Contact involves a person's feeling of connection with others or the world outside herself/himself while maintaining separation from it.

Contact boundaries is defined as the boundaries that distinguish between one person/or one aspect of a person and an object, another person, or another aspect of oneself.

Contact call refers to a sound produced by a bird that appears to tell a nearby bird of the caller's location.

Contact comfort is defined as a pleasant and reassuring feeling human and animal infants get from touching or clinging to something soft and warm, generally their mother; the pleasure derived from physical contact with another a hypothesized need or drive for physical contact with another.

Contact hypothesis refers to the prediction that contact between the members of different groups will reduce intergroup conflict ; that regular interaction between members of different groups reduces prejudice, providing that it occurs under favorable conditions. Moreover, Contact hypothesis is the idea that exposure to members of an out-group will produce more favorable attitudes toward that group

Contactful interactions is defined as interactions that are open to the other's point of view and clearly express the speaker's point of view.

Contagion refers to the rapid transmission of emotions or behaviors through a crowd

Deutsch: Ansteckungseffekt / Español: Efecto contagioso / Português: Efeito de contágio / Français: Effet de contagion / Italiano: Effetto di contagio /

Contagion effect refers to the tendency of some people to model or copy Behavior or activity portrayed by news or entertainment media.