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Psychologists

 * William Orwig (Prominent psychologist on the topic of creativity. He completed his Phd from Harvard University Department of Psychology Graduate Student of Daniel Schacter and collaborator. He conducts research at the intersection of AI and Creativity. He is a leader in the field of creativity research. He is on the Organizing Committee of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity) (https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/william-orwig, Harvard University, https://www.tsfnc.org/about, Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, https://www.willorwig.com/ personal website, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jocb.636, notable publication on the topic of AI and creativity)

A–B

 * Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research -- Professional Organization / Learned Society []
 * adaptive meaning
 * adaptive psychotherapy - Robert Langs' conception
 * Affect in Play Scale (APS)
 * affinity bias
 * alpha change – also, beta and gamma change; refers to changes in an outcome measure after an intervention and whether the change is due to a change in the latent variable, a recalibration of the measurement instrument, or a shift in the latent variable
 * Ambulatory Assessment - Research methodology that obtains data from real world situations de:Ambulantes Assessment
 * Ammons Scientific - publishers of four peer-reviewed psychological journals, including Perceptual & Motor Skills and Psychological Reports
 * Animal bridegroom -- See [Animal groom in folklore] as an psychological/anthropological explanation for fairy tale origins. Also see Leavy, Barbara Fass, "The Animal Groom." In Search of the Swan Maiden. New York University Press, 1995. 101-155 and Hood, Gwyneth. "Husbands and Gods as Shadowbrutes: Beauty and the Beast from Apuleius to CS Lewis." Mythlore 15.2 (56 (1988): 33-60 as well as Neumann, Erich. Amor and Psyche: The psychic development of the feminine. Vol. 24. Routledge, 2013. and see this link-- a search for the term 'animal' in Heuscher, J. E. (1963). A psychiatric study of fairy tales: their origin, meaning, and usefulness. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas..  Also see the etymology for bridegroom - the article has been created: Animal as Bridegroom.
 * arousal-affect model – a model that integrates the arousal capacity and affect-eliciting qualities ascribed to erotica, by Zillmann and Bryant
 * Ashlee Schull Female hypnotist for Kismet video in videos like Ashlee rules the world - Not notable. --CNMall41 (talk) 00:24, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * aspirational regret
 * atypical language organization
 * backhanded advice – advice that is designed to instill fear, anger, frustration, pain, sympathy, guilt, or obligation into the targeted person; the adviser uses a mix of words, tone of voice, and body language to accomplish their goal. See redirects Backhanded complement and Backhanded apology.
 * basic fault – see Michael Balint
 * behavior system – theory by William Timberlake
 * behavioral observation – observing and recording one's behaviors in order to diagnose their illness
 * bioecological model of intellectual development – theory of how intelligence develops; created by Stephen J. Ceci and Urie Bronfenbrenner right here
 * biomedical therapy – also called biological therapy: drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, surgery, etc.; could this redirect to psychopharmacology or psychiatry instead?
 * Blake's Cherubim – See
 * Body Doubling – Tool for those with ADHD ( https://add.org/the-body-double/ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/body-doubling-adhd )
 * Boston process approach - a method of assessing brain function with neuropsychological assessment, see Edith Kaplan
 * Bril Scale and Bril (unit) – see

C–D

 * Campbell Interest and Skill Survey
 * carbon conversations
 * Category Fluency
 * Centil – scale upon which Raven's matrix test for logical intelligence is built
 * Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior – Central Intelligence Agency, Founding Director Jerrold M. Post, M.D.
 * Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy/Partners for Change Outcomes Management System
 * closing ranks
 * contagious depression, Co-depression/ depression in relationships
 * cognitive drift - term has many references in psychological literature. Introduced into zeitgeist by the book SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
 * Cognitive ease
 * cognitive-expectancy theory
 * cognitive-remediation theory
 * cognitive structure – term may have multiple meanings; possible college course description at ; used in artificial intelligence research ; description ; term used here
 * command obedience
 * competition theory
 * Comprehensive Psychology - Open Access journal by Ammons Scientific ( publishing empirical, applied, and theoretical articles
 * Compulsive foreign language syndrome "a rare condition in which someone begins speaking a foreign language after suffering head trauma". Sources:, , paywalled: )
 * conceptual gap - mentioned in Quantum foundations
 * conjoint retention - conjointly presented verbal or spatial information facilitates retrieval from either stimulus format
 * Connors form – a screening tool for ADHD
 * constitutive conditions of existence conditions
 * contrast gaining
 * control deprivation
 * Cook-Medley Hostility Scale - "derived from the MMPI, was initially designed as a measure of student rapport among teachers ..."
 * Dating and mental health
 * diagnostic algorithms
 * differential emotional scale
 * directed thinking
 * disguised grief - Dr. Joan Rosenberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbvBcbP34
 * dispossession of consciousness
 * DOPE Bird 4 Personality Types
 * Duncanian theory of addictions ) – harm-reduction approach to addictions treatment
 * Duquesne School (and Duquesne Department of Psychology) referenced in wiki page: Phenomenology (psychology)
 * Dimensions of style
 * Death Transcendence Scale – A 25-item self-administered scale based on the premise that "death is transcended through identification with phenomena more enduring than oneself." VandeCreek, L., & Nye, C. (1993). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 32(3),279-283.

E–F

 * Embodiment (psychology) - https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Embodiment
 * Emotional neglect
 * Emotional dumping/ Trauma dumping
 * Empirical genetic prognosis – developed by Ernst Rüdin
 * Empirically validated treatments
 * Failure to Launch Syndrome
 * Fear of centipedes - related to Entomophobia
 * Feminine intuition
 * Five Wet Monkeys a.k.a. Five Monkeys and a Ladder
 * Freeze Response - see Freezing behavior
 * Future tripping (Common cause of anxiety, where you imagine bad, unrealistic things happening in the future)
 * Functional Imagery Training (FIT) (FIT is a unique approach to behaviour change that uses mental imagery to motivate change. FIT teaches people new ways of thinking about their immediate future to help them stay motivated as they achieve each small step towards their goal.) (https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/psychology/applied-psychology/functional-imagery-training)

G–I

 * generalisation-decrement theory
 * human dynamics (psychology) – personality theory by Sandra Seagal and David Horne (scholar); at 2012-02-18, human dynamics is article on "a new branch of complex systems research in statistical physics"
 * Idiocentrism - see Allocentrism versus Idiocentrism
 * Imagery rehearsal therapy, a treatment for nightmare disorders (Special:WhatLinksHere/Imagery rehearsal therapy)
 * Institute for Motivational Research – founded by Ernest Dichter; place where the focus group was created
 * Inteligence and Creativity
 * Intelligent Enneagram Questionnaire (iEQ9) (One of the most used online Enneagram Tests) (https://terryhildebrandt.com/integrative-enneagram-ieq9/)
 * Integrative Enneagram Solutions (Company that offers iEQ9 test) (https://www.coachdirectory.co.za/coaches/coach-training-cape-town-integrative-enneagram-solutions/)
 * intelligence trap – idea Edward De Bono wrote about his in book Thinking Course, where smart people do not question themselves because they are able to argue their own correctness so effectively

J–O
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 * Modern Racism Scale (McConahay, Hardee, & Batts, 1981)
 * Nostalgia therapy - the reflection upon past events and experiences to improve psychology and mental health and well-being.
 * Mental health by country - mental health history/prevelance for each specific country. Have a list of countries to choose from, and from each item in that list, it will have it's own article and specific info for that country in relation to mental health. You are either wanting a template or the article prevalence of mental disorders
 * Moral defence (A defence mechanism proposed by Fairbairn in which an object's badness is internalised in order to purify the object, thus exchanging self-esteem for feelings of outer security)
 * Moral Self-Awareness Theory - a four-stage evolving mindset of moral identity based on the impacts (positive or negative) on others or society that one’s actions may effect.
 * Nazism in the West vide: nazism in the Americas
 * key leader engagement

P–S
risk behaviour
 * p factor (psychopathology) (note: It currently links to psychopathology, which already has a burgeoning section on it. I believe the source I gave proves that it can be expanded and spun into its own article.)
 * Prevalence-induced concept change (The phenomenon where the threshold for identifying a certain category or phenomenon gradually shifts as instances of that category become less frequent. As the prevalence of the category decreases, our definitions and criteria for identifying it expand, leading to a broader concept that encompasses a wider range of instances. This concept change can result in a persistent perception of a problem or issue even when it diminishes in reality.)
 * productivity anxiety/ productivity guilt
 * rejection sensitive dysphoria
 * religious bias Religious bias exists in the absolute and relative ethical domains. Bias can be against religion or religious beliefs may cause a bias in perspective. In the absolute domain of ethics, religion is problematic. In the relative ethics domain, society grapples with how to support religious freedom, even when those religious beliefs may be counter to the welfare of the members of that society; related to List of cognitive biases
 * remote associates test
 * retention (memory), in learning, the ability to retain facts and figures in memory
 * Reversal into its opposite (A defence mechanism proposed by Sigmund Freud in Instincts and Their Vicissitudes, later included in Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence under the name reversal, simply.)
 * Sad Clown Paradox
 * Satir method - the method developed by Virginia Satir
 * scale-dependent interactions
 * Seattle Longitudinal Study: One of most extensive examinations on how people change and develop throughout a lifespan. Created by K. Warner Schaie, also referred to in the Wikipedia entry on longitudinal study. Information can be found on the study's main website. Also, there is an extensive introduction to Dr. Schaie's book on the matter that can be previewed using Google books.
 * selfie dysmorphia
 * semantic apraxia
 * sentimental value
 * sexual acts in front of children / effects of sexual acts and pornography on children and/or adolescents
 * sexorexia – avoidance or denial of sexual intimacy due to control issues, often accompanied by low self-esteem; individuals exhibit behaviors that are similar to the behaviors of anorexics
 * shared dream
 * significant emotional event (SEE)
 * snow eating – similar to pagophagia
 * social anhedonia – already partially covered in e.g., the article on Schizotypy, but a new article would be a good idea
 * social fatigue/ social exhaustion
 * Social and psychological value of money
 * social psychology of creativity
 * social referencing (cf. Soziales Referenzieren and Social cue)
 * societal attitudes towards pedophilia
 * socio-professionalism
 * solution-focused approaches – based on the principles of solution-focused brief therapy
 * solution orientation –
 * Soulmate Believers × Work It Outs
 * source monitoring – see Source-monitoring error
 * spiritual self-schema (therapy)
 * staff observation agression scale (SOAS))
 * skill fade
 * state of being lost
 * strength-deployment inventory – see Elias Porter, Ph.D.
 * Subjective Workload Assessment Technique (SWAT)
 * Sunshine Effect or Effect of sunshine on mood. A potential point of interest might be the debated effect of sunshine on stockmarket sentiment.
 * Sylvan contemplation
 * sympathy illness or sympathy pain or sympathy sickness – redirect all into one, perhaps the scientific name if it has one

T–Z

 * task cohesion
 * task paralysis
 * Technical pacifism - Technical pacifist,
 * teen angst
 * teloi
 * temporal gradient
 * test coaching – redirect to teaching to the test?
 * test of word-reading efficiency (TOWRE)
 * Theomonistik
 * theory of visual attention – Bundsen 1990
 * The Chimp Paradox - Notable book by Professor Steve Peters
 * the process therapy model - Kahler
 * theraplay and sunshine circles
 * Tourism psychology
 * toxic personalities
 * training prospects
 * transageism - Mentioned in the article Peter Pan syndrome, but has no article of its own
 * transdiagnostic unified protocol
 * transfer psychology
 * transpersonal caring theory - by Jean Watson. There's a subheading under Jean Watson, however it has very limited information.
 * Turning round upon the subject's own self - Commonly referred to simply as turning around, a defence mechanism introduced in Sigmund Freud's Instincts and their Vicissitudes. In Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, it is referred to as turning against the self.
 * voice dysphoria
 * Whole Trait Theory
 * Work It Outs × Soulmate Believers
 * Zeitgaber – as related to social intelligence; see Daniel Goleman's work
 * Zeitgaber – as related to social intelligence; see Daniel Goleman's work

Psychiatry

 * Brazilian Association of Psychiatry
 * Canadian Psychiatric Association
 * German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology
 * Irish College of Psychiatrists
 * Israeli Psychiatric Association
 * Italian Psychiatric Society
 * Japanese Society of Psychiatry & Neurology
 * Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
 * Maryland Psychiatric Society
 * Singapore Psychiatric Association
 * South African Society of Psychiatrists