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At bottom, basically. For example, Deep down she was a rebel, or Although he would never admit it, deep down he was very fond of her. [c. 1900]

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Words related to deep down

built-in, chronic, deep-rooted, inbred, inherent, longstanding, inside, internally, within, at heart, privately, secretly, confirmed, dyed-in-the-wool, established, fixed, habitual, inborn, longtime, subconscious

How to use deep down in a sentence

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• A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

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• The lascivious sex predator is out; the deep-pocketed caped crusader is most definitely in.

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• He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

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• The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

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• I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

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• His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

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• So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.

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Why do we think that deep down we are good, and is it really so

October 15

Life

Actually, believing in a good and pure «true self» is harmful.

In the first season of The X-Files, Dana Scully, along with her former FBI Academy instructor Jack Willis, goes to the signal of a bank robbery. During the arrest, one of the criminals severely injures Willis. Scully shoots back at the mugger, who dies.

Some time later, Willis wakes up in the hospital. But he changed, became evil. The soul of a robber moved into his body, who now seeks to reunite with his beloved and take revenge on those who handed him over to the FBI.

As a graduate student, Nina Strominger, Ph.D. in psychology and assistant professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, watched The X-Files. Among all the episodes with monsters and aliens, it was the story of the transmigration of souls that attracted her (by the way, this happened again in the series when Fox Mulder and the Area 51 operative exchanged bodies).

Strominger became interested in this idea. After all, if the robber was able to leave his own body and end up in Willis, then he was not one with his physical shell. There was some kind of separate entity that could move from one person to another.

Strominger noticed another curious thing. During the transmigration of souls, the heroes do not transfer everything to a new body, but only some of their traits. And she wanted to know if there was any pattern in this selectivity.

This prompted Nina to do a little experiment. Together with Wharton School colleague Sean Nichols, the researcher asked people a simple question: “If you had to move into another body, which of the key features of your personality would you take with you?”

There was something in common in the answers. People have always said that in addition to personal memories and preferences, they would have transferred traits associated with morality, conscience. Some good, highly moral part of his personality. It was she who was associated in all respondents with their own «I».

But Strominger’s study is just one of many. All these works unambiguously prove that people have a stable idea of ​​a certain deep “true self”. And this “true me” is necessarily good.

Is there really a «true self»

Now that’s an interesting question. From a scientific point of view, the inner conscientious self almost certainly does not exist. All that is known from neuroscience and psychology does not support the theory of some separate good entity hidden somewhere in the depths of the soul.

Most likely, the «true me» is just an illusion. Just a widespread habit of seeing in yourself a kind, high-moral soul.

But that doesn’t matter at all. “Functionally, in some ways, it doesn’t matter, because the idea of ​​a “true self” affects our behavior and view of the world just as much as if this “true self” actually existed,” says Rebecca Schlegel, a social psychologist from the Texas A&M University

How the “true me” influences the perception of the world

Recommendations are heard from all sides: “Be yourself!” It is this advice that is perceived as defining in life, love, career. If you are yourself, that is, if you act in accordance with who you are deep down inside, you will achieve success and happiness.

But what do we mean by «being yourself»? Scientists have received a very unambiguous answer to this.

In various experiments, they asked volunteers to evaluate the personality changes that people experienced after traumatic brain injuries, taking psychoactive drugs, imaginary body swap. The ratings are similar. If a person changed, but at the same time retained moral qualities — kindness, sympathy, honesty, the participants said that he «remained himself.» If these qualities suffered, it sounded: «He became a different person.»

Indicative of an experiment in which volunteers were asked to read about two patients with dementia. The first, with severe memory loss as a result of Alzheimer’s disease, was considered by the participants to have retained his own personality. In contrast to the second, in which everything was in order with memory and memories, but the “moral abilities” were significantly reduced due to frontotemporal dementia. He, according to the respondents, ceased to be himself.

In addition, in a 2008 study, scientists found that people are reluctant to take drugs that can affect moral qualities: kindness, the ability to feel empathy. And much less worried about drugs that sometimes reduce alertness or impair memory.

Summary: «to be yourself» in the mass consciousness means to behave in accordance with moral principles. Departure from them is perceived as a loss of oneself.

Curiously, this concept of a morally good «true self» is universal. Research involving volunteers from Colombia, Singapore, Russia gave similar results, although the cultures of these countries have very different ideas about human nature. “Hindu Hindus and Buddhists from Tibet believe that the moral aspects of personality play a key role in their self-identification, although the latter generally deny the existence of such a thing as personality,” says psychologist Christian Jarrett in the British Psychological Society Research Digest.

Why we think that deep down everyone is good

We usually think of ourselves better than others is one of the most common cognitive distortions. But when it comes to the «true self», we assume that in other people it is also highly moral. Such bias is demonstrated even by misanthropes, that is, those who initially treat people badly.

Perhaps this is a manifestation of our sociality as a species. Thinking that there are not villains around is good for a sense of well-being, helps us cooperate and trust each other.

Another explanation could be that people generally tend to focus on positive traits. This is called «psychological essentialism.»

For example, when asked to describe a table, we say that it has four legs for stability and a surface to eat or work on. That is, we list the features of a “good” table. It would never occur to anyone to describe a broken, “bad” model.

Our idea of ​​the «true self», the desire to fit it to positive characteristics may be the result of the same essentialist thinking.

Why then are many hostile to other people

Indeed, this raises a question. If we think so well of ourselves and others, why are there so many disgusting disputes, swearing and insults on the same Internet? Doesn’t this conflict with the mass belief in a good «true self»?

Yale experimental philosopher Josh Knobe has a possible explanation: While we all believe in a morally good inner being, our definition of morality varies according to beliefs and inner values.

In one experiment, Knobe and his colleagues asked people to describe how they felt about a fictitious person named Mark. He allegedly was a Christian and at the same time was attracted to men. Opinions were divided. Conservative participants in the experiment confidently stated that Mark’s «true self» lies in faith, and to succumb to feelings for him would be a retreat from himself. Liberals, on the other hand, reported that Mark’s sexuality was his «true self». From the point of view of the latter, to abandon oneself and one’s impulses for the sake of some abstract faith — that would be a betrayal of the real essence of Mark.

Further, everything is simple. Whatever path the conditional Mark takes, there will always be people who consider this choice an outrage on the true essence of the hero. And this abuse causes irritation and aggression.

Why is the belief that deep down you are a good person harmful

The answer is simple: it discourages. If the morality of the inner self is taken for granted and not deserved, there is a temptation to start making excuses for bad deeds.

On the other hand, immoral acts threaten our sense of identity. And that’s a lot of stress. Therefore, some people simply deny their immoral behavior, shifting responsibility for it to third-party factors: “I was forced”, “I was provoked”, “I am not like that — life is like that.” Others seek to redeem themselves with quick acts of kindness, such as donations. And again become good in their own eyes.

Such decisions really quickly bring a person back in line with his ideas about his «true self». But they do not encourage an ethical lifestyle in general.

How to make use of the illusory «true self»

Yes, «true self» does not exist, and deep down people are not necessarily good. But this illusion has an important function.

The notion of one’s own «true self» can serve as a guide. A deep internal standard that motivates you to live according to your conscience.

Even if the circumstances are not ideal and cause you to stumble, you know that there is something good inside you — and you are looking for opportunities to express it. This approach gives meaning to actions and helps to build a life that you are satisfied and proud of.

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IN THE DEPTH OF THE SOUL | it’s… What is DOWNLOAD?

InterpretationTranslation

IN THE DEEP

know; understand; hope etc.

Secretly from others, really.

This refers to the actual thoughts, feelings and experiences of a person ( X ), which he often does not realize and, as a rule, does not reveal to others. speech standard . ✦ Deep down X knows sth.
unchanged
Only with verbs nes. in.
In the role of Obst.
The order of component words is fixed.

No, Nikolaev was not at all eager to set foot on the land of his spiritual fatherland, but in the depths of his soul knew that sooner or later this meeting could not be avoided. And I slowly got ready. B. Akunin, Altyn-tolobas. Vronsky himself realized his own worthlessness (sincerity is still inherent in him) in the depths of his soul — when comparing himself with a certain foreign prince, whom he was assigned to guard for a while <…>. «Stupid beef! Am I really like this?» he thought. M. Dunaev, Orthodoxy and Russian Literature.

I was left completely alone on earth, but, I confess, in the depths of my soul was delighted. M. Bulgakov, Theatrical novel .

I was reading this entry and something familiar was tormenting me. I was looking for at least some name, a name to recognize this city. I already guessed in the depths of my soul which city we are talking about, but I was not yet completely sure of this. K. Paustovsky, Restless youth.

How was it just recently at the Sydney Olympics? Everything was going great, in the depths of her soul already saw herself on the first step of the podium. And then — bam! And she ruined everything. Today, 2000 .

There was sincerity in his voice, but in the very depths of his heart he knew he was lying. ( Sp. )

cultural comment:
Component phraseol. the soul goes back to one of the oldest forms of understanding the world, which is characterized by an animistic, i.e. animating, perception of nature as material (rivers, lakes, forests, animals , etc. ) and intangible ( soul ). The primitive peoples already had an idea of ​​the soul as «a subtle, immaterial human image, in its nature something like vapor, air or shadow. It constitutes the cause of life and thought in the being that it animates <…>, inseparably owns the personal consciousness and will of its bodily owner <…>, is able to leave the body and be transported from place to place. ( Tylor E.B. Primitive Culture. M. , 1989. S. 37. ) Many ancient peoples believed that the soul of a person, destined for the future heavenly life, lives in heart .
In the Old Testament tradition the soul created by God appears first of all as the cause of human life: «And the Lord God created man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul» ( Gen. 2:7 ). Soul and heart , which is more subject to personification, are symbolically comprehended as an area of ​​​​the secret, invisible to others world, the focus of true feelings and thoughts, all that is vital for a given person. So there are 9 components0114 Phraseol. soul and heart correlate with the anthropic code of culture and indicate a set of ideas about the «inner double», «second self» (alter Ego), emotional center, innermost area.
Component depth goes back to the most ancient in the cultural assimilation of the world opposition «internal — external». The combination of components in the depth of corresponds to the spatial code of the culture and in the image phraseol. is interpreted as something inaccessible to outside observation, hidden, intimate.
Image Phraseol. forms anthropomorphic-spatial and natural-landscape metaphors, likening the depth of the soul ( hearts ) to the innermost inaccessible.