A contrarian is a person who holds a contrary position, especially a position against the majority.
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contrarian investing
Contrarian Investing is an investment strategy that is characterized by purchasing and selling in contrast to the prevailing sentiment of the time.
A contrarian believes that certain crowd behavior among investors can lead to exploitable mispri ...
style is based on identifying, and speculating against, movements in stock prices that reflect changes in the sentiments of most investors.{{Citation needed, date=January 2012
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Conformity
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Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Ho ...
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Devil's advocate
The (Latin for Devil's advocate) is a former official position within the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith: one who "argued against the canonization (sainthood) of a candidate in order to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentat ...
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Dissent
Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual. A dissenting person may be referred to as ...
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Dissenter
A dissenter (from the Latin ''dissentire'', "to disagree") is one who dissents (disagrees) in matters of opinion, belief, etc.
Usage in Christianity
Dissent from the Anglican church
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
''Letters to a Young Contrarian'' is Christopher Hitchens' contribution, released in 2001, to the '' Art of Mentoring'' series published by Basic Books.
Inspired by his students at The New School in New York City and "a challenge that was made to ...
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Christopher Hitchens, a noted contrarian
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Oppositional defiant disorder
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is listed in the DSM-5 under ''Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders'' and defined as "a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness". This behavior is us ...
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Journalism
Radicalism (historical)
Dissidents
Fringe theory