Acting out

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In psychology and psychiatry, acting out is the expression of one's emotion by physical movement, especially ones perceived as socially inappropriate or anti-social. It is considered a form of self-control, and, in psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Acting out”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia