Health, Gender and Psychology

Acali	○ A social experiment where the subjects didn’t do what they were meant to!!
Alternative medicine	🐇 Non-science based treatments such as homeopathy, chiropractic, and faith healing
Death row phenomenon	Increased distress felt by prisoners on death row
Factitious disorder imposed on self	🐇 Previously called Munchausen syndrome
Glabellar reflex	○ Something to try on your friends and family
Horoscope	🐇 Astrological star chart
Insomnia	● For those of you who should be sleeping right now
List of cognitive biases	● 🐇 Including thinking that knowing about them is enough to overcome them
List of human positions	🐇 Hello, if you have come to earth and are trying to blend in with us humans, please refer to the knee-chest position as a common method of greeting people
List of paraphilias	❗🐇 A list of common to unusual to illegal fetishes
List of phobias	❗🐇 Also includes terms of discrimination
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, and List of diagnoses characterized as pseudoscience	🐇 Phenomena and beliefs with no scientific backing
Love bombing	○ An attempt to influence/manipulate someone through affection
Mariko Aoki phenomenon	No shame if you’ve ever felt this phenomenon, as long as you didn’t… follow through
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator	● Popular personality test
Near-death experience	Multiple studies have found many people who experienced NDEs feel a sense of peace
Paradox of tolerance	A philosophical concept that says social tolerance to the intolerant leads to dominance of intolerance; think Nazis being brushed off as just another radical group
Paris syndrome	The realisation that Paris isn’t as good as you thought
Phantom limb	Most amputees feel a sensation that their missing limb is still attached and usable
Photic sneeze reflex	A condition that causes sneezing; only affects 18-35% of the world’s population
Pica	🐇 A disorder that causes consumption of non-food items
Smile	Good for social situations, not so much when around chimpanzees
Stanford prison experiment	❗● A psychological experiment that descended into brutality
Sylvia Plath effect	❗ 🐇 A phenomenon where poets are more likely to have mental illnesses compared to other writers
Taste bud	○ Contrary to popular belief, the tongue does not have different areas for taste
Uncanny valley	🐇 Ever felt uneasy looking at human-like robots?
Unethical human experimentation in the United States	❗●🐇 Some people should not have a medical license
Vaccines and autism	Y’all are getting vaccines with your autism? I just got measles and autism
Vanity sizing	A phenomenon happening to your clothes

Gender

Gendered associations of pink and blue	Following WWII pink and blue started to shift into a tool to define genders
Gender-based price discrimination in the United States	Discrimination of prices based on gender; e.g. white males can get better car deals than other men and women, or tampons being subject to tax
Male expendability	○ Viewing men as lesser than women because of their role in re-productivity
Pink tax	Making products for women means we can charge more than the men’s version? Yes?
Returning soldier effect	○ A theory that more boys are born after a war
Women and children first	Old chivalric view that people still echo today

Below are more articles that are still interesting but may be triggering for some people.

Addiction	● 🐇 An in depth look into how addictions affect us
List of diets	❗🐇 Not recommended for those with an ED
Physical attractiveness	❗● 🐇 An article on historical and cultural interpretations of beauty