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Anti-war movement
Anti-war movement: organized opposition to specific wars or war in general, overlapping with the peace movement. Key examples: WWI dissent and crackdown, the Vietnam-era movement (largest in U.S. history), and 2003 Iraq War protests.
Anti-White racism
Anti-White racism, also called reverse racism or anti-white bias, is racial prejudice or discrimination directed at white people; the article covers its contested terminology, survey-experiment and hiring-audit evidence, measurement scales, and US legal treatment.
Antifeminism
Antifeminism is opposition to feminism and feminist policies in some or all forms, theorized as a countermovement to feminist movements. Distinct from misogyny and sexism, it spans conservative anti-ERA activism, the anti-gender movement, far-right 'gender ideology' discourse, and online manosphere and tradwife influencers.
Antisaccade task
The antisaccade task is an eye-movement test requiring a person to suppress a glance toward a sudden cue and look the opposite way, used as a clinical marker.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism is prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people, rooted in early Christian anti-Judaism and later secular economic, nationalist, and racial forms; it culminated in the Nazi Holocaust and persists today, with contested definitions like the IHRA working definition.
Antisemitism in Australia
Antisemitism in Australia: hostility toward Jews from colonial-era immigration discrimination through the post-October 2023 surge in incidents, the Bondi Beach 2025 massacre, and the royal commission response.
Antisemitism in Europe
Antisemitism in Europe: hatred of Jews from early Christian anti-Judaism through medieval expulsions (England 1290, Spain 1492), 19th-century racial antisemitism, the Holocaust, and today's post-October 7 surge.
Antisemitism in Islam
Antisemitism in Islam covers anti-Jewish attitudes in Islamic texts, law, and modern Muslim politics, from the subordinate dhimmi status of Jews under classical rule to modern radical Islamist and Israel-related antisemitism, with survey data on Muslim populations.
Antisemitism in Poland
Antisemitism in Poland covers hostility toward Jews from the interwar period, the Holocaust, the 1946 Kielce pogrom, and the 1968 communist expulsion of about 15,000 Jews to present-day monitoring: 125 officially recorded hate crimes in 2024 versus 1,493 incidents documented by the Jewish Association Czulent.
Antisemitism in the Soviet Union
Antisemitism in the Soviet Union: official repudiation of antisemitism alongside suppression of Jewish religion and culture, Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaign and Doctors' Plot, informal quotas, the 1972 diploma tax, and post-Soviet legacy.
Antisemitism in the United States
Antisemitism in the United States: prejudice and discrimination against American Jews, tracked by the ADL Audit (since 1979) and FBI hate-crime data; record 9,354 incidents in 2024, 6,274 in 2025, deadly attacks including Pittsburgh's Tree of Life and the 2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting.
Antisemitism on social media
Antisemitism on social media covers explicit and coded anti-Jewish hate on platforms like X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and 4chan. It surged after 7 October 2023, evades automated moderation, and is monitored using the IHRA definition.
Antisemitism on Wikipedia
Antisemitism on Wikipedia: documented antisemitic and anti-Israel bias in Wikipedia content and editing, per ADL 2025-2026 reports on coordinated editors, ArbCom bans, ADL source disputes, and Wikimedia Foundation responses.
Antonela Roccuzzo
Antonela Roccuzzo (born 1988, Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine entrepreneur, model, and influencer, wife of Lionel Messi since their 2017 Rosario wedding; mother of Thiago, Mateo, and Ciro; co-founder of children's brand Enfans.
Antonia Salzano
Antonia Salzano Acutis (born 1966, Rome) is an Italian writer, mother of Saint Carlo Acutis, the first millennial Catholic saint canonized in 2025; author of Il segreto di mio figlio and speaker on her son's Eucharistic faith.
Antony Kidman
Antony David "Tony" Kidman AM (1938–2014), Australian clinical psychologist and biochemist, father of Nicole and Antonia Kidman; directed UTS Health Psychology Unit 30 years, Order of Australia 2005, died in Singapore 2014, later accused of child abuse.
APA style
APA style: scholarly writing and citation guidelines from the American Psychological Association, originating in a 1929 Psychological Bulletin article, described in the 7th edition (2019) Publication Manual, using author-date citations, sold over 17 million copies, used in over 70% of US college programs.
Apache
Apache: collective name for Southern Athabaskan-speaking peoples (Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, Plains Apache), also self-designated Ndé. Migrated from the north between 1100 and 1600; reservations in New Mexico and Arizona; Oak Flat dispute ongoing.
Apathy
Apathy is a neuropsychiatric syndrome marked by reduced will and initiative, lack of interest, and blunted emotion for at least 4 weeks, distinct from depression.
Aphantasia
Aphantasia is the reduced or absent ability to form voluntary mental imagery, coined in 2015 by Adam Zeman, Michaela Dewar, and Sergio Della Sala; opposite extreme hyperphantasia; prevalence about 3.9%; not a DSM disorder; assessed mainly by VVIQ and binocular rivalry.
Apollo Quiboloy
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, Filipino televangelist and founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) in Davao, 1985, calls himself Appointed Son of God; indicted in the US in 2021 for sex trafficking, arrested in the Philippines in September 2024, now facing extradition.
Apophenia
Apophenia (German Apophänie), coined by Klaus Conrad in 1958, is the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random data; originally a stage of delusion formation in early schizophrenia, now a general false-positive bias.
Apostolic United Brethren
Apostolic United Brethren (AUB), also called the Allred group, The Work, or The Group: a Mormon fundamentalist denomination practicing plural marriage, led by Rulon C. Allred from 1954, headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah, with about 7,500 members.
Applied behavior analysis
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) applies operant conditioning principles to change socially significant behavior, defined by Baer, Wolf, and Risley's 1968 JABA framework; best known as an autism treatment with mixed evidence and growing Medicaid oversight.
Applied psychology
Applied psychology is the use of psychological research methods and findings to solve practical problems in health, work, education, law, and technology, spanning specialties like clinical and industrial-organizational psychology.
Approach-avoidance task
The approach-avoidance task is a psychology reaction-time paradigm measuring automatic approach and avoidance tendencies, introduced by Andrew Solarz in 1960 and widely used in research on addiction and phobias.
Aptitude
Aptitude is the potential to acquire knowledge or skill, measured by aptitude tests (GATB, DAT, ASVAB, formerly the SAT) distinct from achievement tests; validity, fairness, and declining predictive power define the field.
Aqllawasi
An aqllawasi, also written acllawasi, was an Inca institution, the "House of the Chosen Women," where secluded girls were trained in textile production and religious service.
Arab Americans
Arab Americans: a panethnic American group from Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern and North African countries, defined by shared Arabic language and culture; roughly 1.2 million by Census 2000 ancestry data, about 3.7 million by advocacy estimates; first major wave from Ottoman Greater Syria, 1880–1914.
Arab Barghouti
Arab Barghouti (Arabic: Arab al-Barghouthi) is a Palestinian campaigner, son of imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, advocating his father's release and Palestinian prisoners' rights; he leads the Free Marwan campaign from Ramallah, an IT entrepreneur.