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Expressing anger aggressively drains it and reduces later aggression.
What we know now
Aggressive venting generally does not purge anger and can maintain or increase arousal, rumination, and aggressive behavior. Strategies that reduce arousal or interrupt rumination are more consistently effective.
- Status
- Overturned
- Category
- Psychology
- Accepted for
- ≈75 years
- Changed approximately
- 1960s–2000s
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Infants become attached to caregivers mainly because those caregivers provide food.
What we know now
Feeding contributes to caregiving, but attachment is a broader need for safety, proximity, comfort, and responsive social contact.
- Status
- Superseded
- Category
- Psychology
- Accepted for
- ≈45 years
- Changed approximately
- 1950s–1960s
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Children learn language entirely by imitating adults and being rewarded for correct speech.
What we know now
Imitation, feedback, and reinforcement contribute to language learning, but they do not explain it alone. Children detect patterns, infer rules, generalize beyond what they hear, and develop language through interacting cognitive, social, and biological processes.
- Status
- Superseded
- Category
- Psychology
- Accepted for
- ≈24 years
- Changed approximately
- 1950s–present
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Human memory stores a faithful recording of events that can later be replayed.
What we know now
Memory is reconstructive. Recall combines stored details with expectations, later information, context, and inference, which can produce confident errors.
- Status
- Superseded
- Category
- Psychology
- Accepted for
- ≈32 years
- Changed approximately
- 1930s–present
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