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  2. Neuro-linguistic programming - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Neuro-linguistic programming ( NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder 's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I. NLP asserts that there is a connection between neurological processes, language and acquired behavioral patterns, and ...

  3. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Criticisms go beyond the lack of empirical evidence for effectiveness; critics say that NLP exhibits pseudoscientific characteristics, title, concepts and terminology. NLP is used as an example of pseudoscience for facilitating the teaching of scientific literacy at the professional and university level.

  4. Natural language processing - Wikipedia

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    Natural language processing ( NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and information retrieval. It is primarily concerned with giving computers the ability to support and manipulate human language. It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora, using either rule-based or ...

  5. John Grinder - Wikipedia

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    Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming. v. t. e. John Thomas Grinder Jr. [1] ( / ˈɡrɪndər / GRIN-dər; born January 10, 1940) is an American linguist, writer, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with co-creating the pseudoscience [2] [3] [4] known as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) with Richard Bandler.

  6. List of organizations opposing mainstream science - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of organizations opposing mainstream science by frequently challenging the facts and conclusions recognized by the mainstream scientific community. By claiming to employ the scientific method in order to advance certain fringe ideas and theories, they are often charged with promotion of various forms of pseudoscience.

  7. Pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to be properly called such. Distinguishing between proper science and pseudoscience is sometimes difficult.

  8. Pickup artist - Wikipedia

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    This version of pickup supposes that one can model a person to obtain their skills. However, scientific consensus is that NLP is a pseudoscience and its methods have no evidentiary base. Later pickup gurus abandoned Jeffries's claims while continuing to employ the basic elements of NLP.

  9. Learning styles - Wikipedia

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    Learning styles refer to a range of theories that aim to account for differences in individuals' learning. [1] Although there is ample evidence that individuals express personal preferences on how they prefer to receive information, [2] : 108 few studies have found validity in using learning styles in education.