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Negotiation
Negotiation is a communication process where parties seek an agreement by balancing shared and opposed interests. Roger Fisher and the Harvard Negotiation Project founded the field in 1979.
Negrito
Negrito is a Spanish-origin anthropological term for short-statured, dark-skinned, frizzy-haired indigenous groups in the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, and Andaman Islands, including the Semang, Maniq, Aeta, and Andamanese; genetics shows they are not one population.
Negro
Negro: historical English term for people of Black African descent, from Spanish/Portuguese negro (Latin niger); standard US census and official usage 1900–2010, now considered offensive, replaced by Black and African American.
Negroid
Negroid is an obsolete racial-classification term from 19th- and 20th-century physical anthropology, grouped with Caucasoid and Mongoloid, once denoting sub-Saharan Africans, Melanesians, and some southern Asian peoples; now marked offensive and scientifically rejected.
Neha Bora
Neha Bora is an Indian student activist who leads the All India Students' Association and led a 2026 hunger strike.
Neighborhood Associations
Neighborhood associations of Japan, called chōnaikai and burakukai, were local units created nationwide in 1940 to run rationing, savings mobilization, civil defense, and war cooperation, and dissolved in 1947.
Neil Horan
Neil Horan, also known as Cornelius Horan, is an Irish former priest known for disrupting the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Olympic marathon.
Neo Black Movement of Africa
Neo Black Movement of Africa (NBM), also identified by governments as the Black Axe confraternity, founded 1977 at University of Benin, Nigeria; registered 1994; denies criminal links.
Neo-Confederates
Neo-Confederates are US adherents of Confederate ideology, also called neo-Confederacy, centered on the League of the South and Identity Dixie, Lost Cause myths, Confederate symbols, and white supremacist beliefs, classified by the SPLC as hate groups.
Neo-Templarism
Neo-Templarism: modern movements claiming inspiration from or descent from the medieval Knights Templar, suppressed in 1312. Begins with Fabré-Palaprat's 1804 Order of the Temple and the forged Larmenius Charter; spans Masonic Templar degrees, OSMTH, and the Order of the Solar Temple.
Nephi Jeffs
Nephi Jeffs, brother of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, served as his personal assistant and message conduit from prison, described as second-in-command of the FLDS; registered agent of two FLDS corporations and witness in the 2014 pecan harvest labor case.
NEPSY
NEPSY is a neuropsychological test battery for children ages 3 to 16, developed by Marit Korkman; its current edition, NEPSY-II, yields subtest scores rather than a single IQ-style score.
Nerd
Nerd: American slang, first attested 1951, for a socially awkward person devoted to intellectual or technical pursuits; related to geek, reclaimed by hacker culture, and central to stereotypes about STEM, gender, and fandom.
Netnography
Netnography is a qualitative, interpretive research methodology that adapts ethnographic techniques to online communities and social media, introduced by Robert V. Kozinets in the mid-1990s.
Neuro-linguistic programming
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in 1970s California, is a communication and personal-development framework using anchoring, reframing, and representational systems; systematic reviews find little evidence for its claims and it is widely classed as pseudoscience.
Neurobiological effects of physical exercise
Neurobiological effects of physical exercise: exercise-induced changes in BDNF signaling, brain structure, inflammation, and cognition across aging, depression, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's disease, with dose and modality evidence.
Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity: the natural variation in human neurocognitive functioning and the 1990s social movement around it, coined by Judy Singer (also Harvey Blume), rooted in autistic online self-advocacy and Jim Sinclair's 1993 essay, contrasting the neurodiversity paradigm with the pathology paradigm.
Neuropsychological assessment
Neuropsychological assessment is a clinical psychology method that uses standardized tests of cognition, behavior, and emotion to evaluate brain function and guide diagnosis and treatment planning.
Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology is the scientific field studying how the nervous system's physiological processes connect to behavior and cognition, guiding diagnosis, assessment, and rehabilitation of brain disorders.
Neuroqueer theory
Neuroqueer theory: a critical framework joining queer theory and neurodiversity, coined publicly around 2014 by Walker, Yergeau, Michaels-Dillon, and Grace, treating queerness and neurodivergence as inseparable and critiquing neuronormativity.
Neuroscience of sex differences
Neuroscience of sex differences: field studying how biological sex relates to brain structure, chemistry, and function. Key issues: mosaic hypothesis (Joel 2015), ~1% variance beyond brain size, hormonal and sex-chromosome mechanisms, and male bias in research.
Neuroticism
Neuroticism (negative emotionality) is a Big Five and Eysenckian personality trait of chronic emotional instability and distress proneness, distinct from neurosis, with genetic basis and links to mortality, well-being, and job outcomes.
Nevada-Semipalatinsk
Nevada-Semipalatinsk was an anti-nuclear movement founded in Kazakhstan in February 1989 by the Kazakh poet Olzhas Suleimenov, whose campaign closed the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in 1991.
Nevertheless, she persisted
"Nevertheless, she persisted" is a feminist slogan from Mitch McConnell's February 2017 Senate rebuke of Elizabeth Warren during the Jeff Sessions confirmation debate; it became a viral rallying cry, merchandise phenomenon, and 2018 Women's History Month theme.
New antisemitism
New antisemitism: concept for post-1945 anti-Jewish hostility expressed through demonization of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; also called Israel-related antisemitism; central to IHRA, JDA, and Nexus definition debates.
New Black Panther Party
The New Black Panther Party is an American Black militant organization founded in Dallas in the early 1990s and designated a hate group by the SPLC.
New materialism
New materialism is an interdisciplinary philosophical current from the 1990s associated with Barad, Braidotti, Bennett, and Haraway, which treats matter as active and extends agency beyond humans, distinct from linguistic-turn and historical-materialist approaches.
New Unionism
New Unionism (novo sindicalismo) was a Brazilian labor movement of the late 1970s, centered on metalworkers' strikes in the ABC Paulista region against the military regime's wage policy.
New Woman
The New Woman: feminist ideal and cultural figure of the 1880s-1890s English fiction, coined by Sarah Grand and Ouida in 1894, an educated, independent, bicycling woman who challenged Victorian marriage and influenced global feminism.
New Year
New Year marks the transition between calendar years; January 1 in the Gregorian calendar, a public holiday in 221 countries in 2026, with other new years (Lunar New Year, Nowruz, Songkran) set by lunar and solar calendars.