Freud believed that defense mechanisms resulted from <em>impulses</em>, but researchers now believe that they result from a need to <em>protect our self-image.</em> According to Sigmund Freud, we use defense mechanisms to protect ourselves from unpleasant impulses and feelings, such as anxiety or guilt. These mechanisms are unconsciously applied to protect a person from what is seen as threatening or unpleasant. Researchers now have stated that these defense mechanisms serve to protect our self-image.
These are examples of Shane's "stereotypes about" women.
Stereotype in the field of social psychology alludes to those
wide spread ideas and concepts which are accepted about certain kind of people
or their ways of conduct with the intention to represent the whole group of
those people or conducts as a whole regardless of the fact that these ideas
portray reality or not.
The phrase taxation without representation describes a populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government's policies. The term has its origin in a slogan of the American colonials against their British rulers: "Taxation without representation is tyranny.
