Psychology

Articles about mind, behavior, mental processes and psychology.

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Fugue state

Gag reflex

Gamophobia

Gamophobia: Fear of Marriage, Commitment, and Romantic Relationships

Gender dysphoria

Gender dysphoria: overview, diagnosis, treatment, and social context

Gender identity

Gender identity: definition, types, development, and social significance

General intelligence factor

General intelligence (g): concept, measurement, history, and debates

Generalized anxiety disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology: principles, history, and lasting influence

Gestalt therapy

Gestalt therapy: principles, history, techniques, and applications

Guilt (emotion)

Guilt (emotion): causes, development, effects, and distinctions

Hallucination

Handedness

Handedness: preference, causes, ambidexterity, and practical effects

Hans Eysenck

Hans Eysenck: German‑born British Psychologist and Personality Theorist

Happiness

Happiness

Happiness: emotion, causes, and cultural perspectives

Overview of happiness as an emotion: definitions, characteristics, history, measurements, benefits, types, and notable distinctions across cultures and psychology.

Harassment

Harassment: definition, forms, effects and responses

Hawthorne effect

Hebephilia

High-functioning autism

Highly sensitive person

Hikikomori

Hippocampus

Hippocampus: anatomy, function, and clinical importance

Histrionic personality disorder

Histrionic Personality Disorder: overview, features, history, and treatment

Human sexuality

Hypersexuality

Hypnagogia

Hypnagogia: the transitional experience between wakefulness and sleep

Hypnosis

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility used in clinical hypnotherapy, self-help, research, and entertainment. It involves induction, suggestion, and

Hypostatic model of personality

Hysteria

Id, ego and super-ego

Id, ego and super-ego

Id, Ego, and Superego — Freud's Structural Model of the Psyche

Freud’s structural model divides the mind into id, ego and superego: instinctual drives, the reality‑oriented mediator, and internalized moral standards. Overview, development, fun

Illusion

Infant attachment

Infant attachment: development, patterns, functions, and long‑term significance

Infantilism

Infantilism (Adult Baby behavior): overview, characteristics, and distinctions

Inner peace

Inner peace (peace of mind)

Insomnia

Intellectual disability

Intelligence

Intelligence: concepts, measurement, and applications

Intelligence quotient

Intelligence quotient

Intelligence quotient (IQ): definition, measurement, history, and uses

A concise encyclopedia article on intelligence quotient (IQ): what it measures, common tests, historical origins, interpretation, applications, controversies (heritability, Flynn e

Intensity of preference

Intimacy

Intimacy: Forms, Development, Importance, and Healthy Boundaries

Ipovlopsychophobia

Ipovlopsychophobia (fear of being photographed)

Irreducible Mind

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Jealousy

Jealousy (emotion)

Judgment

Judgment: decision-making, types, and influences

Just-World phenomenon

Kleptomania

Kleptomania: an impulse-control disorder characterized by recurrent stealing

Knowledge of results

Language attrition

Lateralization of brain function