{"id":68136,"date":"2025-11-12T00:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/separate-thinking-compartmentalization\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:04:29","slug":"separate-thinking-compartmentalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/separate-thinking-compartmentalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate thinking (compartmentalization)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the highest mechanism of psychological defense, which manifests itself in the fact that contradictions between some thoughts, ideas, attitudes or forms of behavior are stubbornly not recognized by a person, and when they are detected, they are rationalized separately without taking into account the connection between them. This is a defense mechanism that allows a person to retain contradictory attitudes, thoughts, and events. A person who for one reason or another needs to coexist within two conflicting positions will try in every possible way not to realize the obvious contradiction between them, using rationalization.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the highest mechanism of psychological defense, which manifests itself in the fact that contradictions between some thoughts, ideas, attitudes or forms of behavior are stubbornly not recognized by a person, and when they are detected, they are rationalized separately without taking into account the connection between them. This is a defense mechanism that allows a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-personality-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}