Psychology

Articles about mind, behavior, mental processes and psychology.

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Sexual addiction

Sexual addiction and compulsive sexual behavior: overview and controversies

Sexual arousal

Sexual arousal: physiology, psychology, and variation

Sexual attraction

Sexual fetishism

Short-term memory

Short-term memory: overview, characteristics, and significance

Shotacon

Shotacon (shōta): Japanese term for attraction to young male fictional characters

Silliness

Similarity (psychology)

Similarity (psychology): mental grouping, models, and measurement

Sinistrophobia

Sinistrophobia: fear of the left side and left-handed people

Sleep deprivation

Sleep deprivation: causes, effects, treatment, and societal impact

Sleep paralysis

Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking (Somnambulism): Causes, Characteristics, and Management

Social anxiety disorder

Specific phobia

Sport psychology

Sport psychology: principles, methods, and applications

Stereotype threat

Stereotype threat: causes, examples, research, and ways to reduce it

Stereotypic movement disorder

Stigma

Stigma in Biology and Society: Marks, Social Exclusion, and Cultural Meanings

Stimulation of nipples

Nipple stimulation: physiology, effects, and considerations

Stimulus (psychology)

Stockholm syndrome

Stockholm syndrome: overview, history, psychology, and significance

Stream of consciousness

Stream of consciousness (psychology and literary technique)

Stress

Stress (physiological and psychological responses)

Stress management

Stress management: techniques, effects, and when to seek help

Subliminal stimuli

Subliminal stimuli: perception below conscious awareness

Suicide

Surprise (emotion)

Surprise (emotion): definition, signs, functions, and distinctions

Synesthesia

Synesthesia: blending of the senses and its types, causes, and history

Teasing

Technosexuality

Telepathy

Temperament

Temporal lobe

The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological & Electro-Magnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness

Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz: Psychiatrist, Critic of Coercive Psychiatry, and Author

Thought

Thought: human mental activity, forms, study, and distinctions

Thought disorder

Tic

Tic (involuntary motor or vocal behavior)

Tickling

Toddler

Torture

Torture: definition, forms, consequences, and legal context

Trait theory

Trait theory in personality psychology

Transphobia

Transphobia: definition, forms, history and societal effects

Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania (Hair‑Pulling Disorder)

Triskaidekaphobia

Triskaidekaphobia: the fear of the number 13

Trypophobia

Trypophobia: aversion to clustered holes and bumps

Uncanny valley

Uncanny valley: human likeness and emotional response

Unconscious mind