social conditioning
The following are all the articles related to social conditioning from PUA Lingo, the Pick Up Artist's Encyclopedia. You can also browse our PUA Terminology List for a full list of PUA terms and acronyms.
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Social Conditioning/Programming
Quick Definition: The implantation of ideas of what life should be like for a particular person based on society’s paradigms,…
Social Capital
Quick Definition: The value in a person’s life (and economics) that is derived from the degree of social cohesion and…
Social Exchange Propensity
Quick Definition: The overall likelihood and flow of energy within a particular venue that encourages strangers to get to know one another. Full Definition: Lately…
Social Value
Quick Definition: The inherent and conveyed survival and replication value one has within a given social setting. Full Definition: While…
Conformist
Quick Definition: The behavior of most of society; a person who adopts the behavior and thoughts of the majority of…
Exaptation
Quick Definition: AKA Predaptation. When a species evolves an evolutionary feature that is unrelated for its originally intended use. Full…
Deus Ex Machina
Quick Definition: The literal translation from Latin is “god out of a machine”. This refers to an improbably character, device…
Dynamic Social Homeostasis
Quick Definition: The ideal state balance all social animals seek to maintain between protecting themselves from danger and aligning themselves…
Arbitrary Value
Quick Definition: A value that is used to label or assigned to something or someone that is subject to the…
New Behavior Patterns
Quick Definition: When a fundamental shift happens that enables a person to change their behavior patterns towards a new goal…
Externalized Reference Points
Quick Definition: Refers to the reference points that PUAs use which are coming from other people or via social conditioning….
Unapologetic
Quick Definition: AKA Unapologetic attitude. A certain state that the individual gets into whereby he is unapologetic about his behavior and who…
Entitlement
Quick Definition: AKA “Sense of Entitlement”. The sub-communicated personal expression of a person’s expectations of what he thinks he deserves…
Sexual Discretion
Quick Definition: AKA “Discretion”; The sensibility and responsibility of a true artist to not brag about his sexual conquests. Full…
Rite Of Passage
Quick Definition: A rite of passage is an event or “ritual” that is planned, and is initiated by the social group to mark…
Anti-Slut Defense (ASD)
Quick Definition: Anti-Slut Defense (ASD) refers to women’s internal mechanism to create plausible deniability before sex with a new man….
Forcing IOIs
Quick Definition: AKA Forced IOI An action that forces a girl to disclose clues as to whether she’s into you or…
Celebrity PUA
Quick Definition: A PUA that has attained mainstream media recognition and receives celebrity like treatment and social status. Full Definition: With…
Meme
Quick Definition: A meme (pronounced ‘meem’) is a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices that transfer and replicated from…
Last Minute Resistance (LMR)
Quick Definition: The resistance that a woman puts up to physical advances before sex. LMR is different than ASD in…
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