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  1. www.psychologytoday.com › the-psychology-insultsThe Psychology of Insults

    Nov 21, 2016 · In addition to status and sexuality, insults inflict shame by mentioning unappealing traits—fatness, shortness, baldness, spottiness, and contagious diseases. Another way of taking a person down ...

    • Insult as An Inherited Form of Communication
    • Violent Communication, A Form of Power
    • Insulting People, Grandiose Narcissism
    • Tourette Syndrome and Coprolalia

    There are those who use insults due to mere social conditioning and inherited behavioral patterns.In fact, those who’ve grown up in environments where criticism, humiliation, and devaluation were commonplace. Sooner or later in life, they repeat the same thing they were exposed to earlier in life. As a matter of fact, with this type of communicatio...

    The University of Bath (England) conducted research that shows us that people who insult frequently tend to colonize organizational environments. Indeed, violent communication seeks to have status and a form of power over others. This is, after all, what many of these figures seek: to create a hierarchy where they can stand above the rest through c...

    Those people who are unaware of how their behavior impacts others, wecall grandiose narcissists or unconscious narcissists. They need to exalt themselves in any situation. To do this, they don’t hesitate in exploiting and insulting others. These people are arrogant, envious, aggressive, and are quick to attack when they perceive that their worth or...

    Although it might be difficult to believe (and understand), there are people who insult and who, in reality, don’t want to do it.In fact, they can’t control themselves and they suffer a compulsive and involuntary behavior of announcing obscene words, insults, and socially inappropriate expressions. Coprolalia is a feature of Tourette syndrome.This ...

  2. Jun 22, 2024 · 5. Ignoring the insult. Humor, unfortunately, has some of the same downsides as returning the insult: Your reply has to be funny, and it has to be well-timed and well-delivered. Ignoring the ...

  3. insult in American English. (ɪnˈsʌlt ; for n. ˈɪnˌsʌlt ) verb transitive. 1. to treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect; subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to hurt the feelings or pride. 2. Obsolete. to attack; assail.

  4. May 20, 2024 · Verbal abuse is a means of controlling and maintaining power over another person. Most people assume that if they were being verbally abused they would know about it. After all, verbal abuse often involves yelling, put-downs, name-calling, and belittling behaviors. But there is more to verbal abuse than people realize.

    • Sherri Gordon
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  5. Jan 16, 2017 · These insults are belittling, communicating a perspective of power and rank looking downward. Stupidity, depravity and peculiarity are lesser quills in Trump’s rhetorical quiver. Opponents are ...

  6. Jan 1, 2015 · An insult is a whole communicative act produced by a sender with the deliberate intent of offending a target entity T (a person, a group, even an object, for example, the symbol of an ideology or an institution), and it does so by attributing a very negative property to the target, finally including him in a category that is degrading for him, in such a way as to spoil the target’s image and ...

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