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
Cute Aggression	Ever wanted to squeeze something cute?
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
Perineum Sunning	● If these parts needed the sun, evolution would have put them elsewhere
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
Side stitch	Doctor’s don’t actually know why this occurs
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

Blonde stereotype, and Blonde versus brunette rivalry	Stop pitting women against each other!
Discrimination against people with red hair	School kids love this one
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
Kathoey	Also known as ‘Ladyboys’; transgender or third gender people in South East Asia
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