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Contact call

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

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Contact comfort

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.

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Contact hypothesis

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

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.

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Contagion

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

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Contagion effect

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.

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Contagious behavior

Contagious behavior refers to a more-or-less instinctive or reflexive Behavior triggered by the occurrence of the same Behavior in another individual.

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Contagious magic

Contagious magic refers to a type of sympathetic magic. Contagious magic involves the belief that what one person does to something that a person once owned or that was close to a pe

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