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Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar targets the Rohingya and other Muslim minorities, about 4 percent of the population, through the 1982 Citizenship Law, 2017 genocide-designated clearance operations, and post-2021 coup abuses by the military and Arakan Army.
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration: federal executive orders (EO 14168, 14187, 14183, 14201) from January 2025 restricting gender-affirming care, military service, passports, and recognition, plus litigation including Skrmetti, PFLAG v. Trump, and Orr v. Trump.
Perseveration
Perseveration (neuropsychology): the inappropriate repetition or continuation of a response after its trigger has changed. Distinguished into stuck-in-set, recurrent, and continuous forms; linked to frontal, posterior left hemisphere, and basal ganglia damage.
Persianate society
Persianate society: societies shaped by Persian language and culture from the Balkans to Bengal, 9th to 19th century; term coined by Marshall Hodgson in The Venture of Islam (1974).
Persians
Persians: Iranian people united by Persian (Farsi), an Indo-Iranian language; named after the Parsa who entered Persis about 1000 BCE. Predominant group in Iran, distinct from the broader Iranian identity, with a large Los Angeles diaspora.
Person of color
Person of color (POC): US collective term for anyone non-white, born twice: late-1700s 'free people of color' (gens de couleur), and post-1970s revival in Black and feminist activism; now standard style-guide vocabulary.
Persona
Persona: the public face or social mask a person presents, from Jung's analytic psychology (Latin for actor's mask), contrasted with the private self; studied empirically as self-presentation and impression management, and now used for LLM role-playing.
Personal advertisement
Personal advertisement (lonely-hearts ad): a classified notice seeking a romantic or marriage partner, first printed in a 1692 British newspaper, common in The Times by 1785-1800, later in matrimonial periodicals, and the direct ancestor of online dating profiles.
Personal development
Personal development: deliberate improvement of skills, habits, well-being, and career via self-help, coaching, books, and apps. Small-to-moderate evidence effects (d≈0.2–0.4), ~$45–51B global market, unregulated coaching credentials.
Personal relationships of Elvis Presley
Personal relationships of Elvis Presley: parents Vernon and Gladys, wife Priscilla Beaulieu (married 1967, divorced 1973), daughter Lisa Marie, partners Anita Wood, Linda Thompson, Ginger Alden, and the Memphis Mafia inner circle.
Personal relationships of Michael Jackson
Personal relationships of Michael Jackson: his Gary, Indiana family, marriages to Lisa Marie Presley (1994-1996) and Debbie Rowe (1996-1999/2000), his three children, custody, and public scrutiny.
Personal relationships of Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney's personal relationships: engagement to Jane Asher (1963–1968), marriage to Linda Eastman (1969–1998), Heather Mills (2002–2008), and Nancy Shevell (2011–present), plus the songs each inspired.
Personality
Personality is the enduring configuration of traits, values, and emotional patterns shaping an individual's adjustment to life. Covers the Big Five, the HEXACO alternative with Honesty-Humility, narrow traits, and stability and change across the lifespan.
Personality Assessment Inventory
The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a 344-item self-report questionnaire measuring personality and psychopathology in adults, widely used in clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and forensic evaluation.
Personality development
Personality development: the lifelong study of how Big Five traits emerge, stabilize, and change. Stability rises until age 30; trait change continues into old age; genes and environments both contribute.
Personality psychology
Personality psychology studies enduring individual differences in traits, motives, development, and personality disorders. Key models include the Big Five (OCEAN), psychoanalytic, humanistic, and social-cognitive theories, plus the person-situation debate and interactionism.
Personality test
A personality test is a standardized psychological instrument, usually a self-report inventory, measuring traits such as the Big Five or MBTI types; used in clinical, workplace, and research settings, with documented validity and reliability concerns.
Personality type
Personality type: discrete categories for personality, from Galen's four temperaments and Jung's 1921 types to the MBTI's 16 types. Evidence favors continuous Big Five traits; taxometric studies find true types scarce or nonexistent.
Persuasion
Persuasion, also called persuasive communication or attitude change, is message-based influence on beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors. Studied since classical rhetoric and Hovland's Yale program; organized today by dual-process models (ELM central/peripheral routes), credibility research, and Druckman's Generalizing Persuasion Framework.
Peruvian immigration to Argentina
Peruvian immigration to Argentina is the movement of people from Peru to Argentina, a largely urban labor migration concentrated in Buenos Aires since the early 1990s.
Peruvian immigration to Spain
Peruvian immigration to Spain is the migration of people from Peru to Spain, one of Spain's largest Latin American communities, with 111,234 registered residents in 2021.
Peruvian immigration to the United States
Peruvian immigration to the United States is the movement of people from Peru to the United States, a community of roughly 710,000 by 2021 that grew rapidly after Peru's 1980s and 1990s crisis.
Peruvian immigration to Venezuela
Peruvian immigration to Venezuela was the movement of Peruvian workers and professionals there during the oil boom years of the 1950s to early 1980s, ending after the 1983 devaluation.
Peruvian Indigenism
Peruvian Indigenism, or indigenismo peruano, was an intellectual and artistic movement of the early twentieth century, centered in Cuzco, that vindicated Peru's indigenous population and reimagined the nation around Andean heritage.
Peruvian migration to Chile
Peruvian migration to Chile is the movement of people from Peru to Chile, historically in the north and since the 1990s centered on Santiago, reaching about 260,785 residents by 2023.
Peruvian migration to Japan
Peruvian migration to Japan is the movement of mostly Japanese-descended Peruvians, called dekasegi, who came to work in manufacturing after Japan's 1990 immigration reform created a residence status for people of Japanese ancestry.
Peruvian peasant movement
The Peruvian peasant movement (movimiento campesino peruano) is the organized action of Peru's campesinos for land, labor conditions, and union rights, organized through unions and the 1947 Confederación Campesina del Perú.
Peruvians
Peruvians are the people of Peru, population 34,157,732 at the 2025 census, fourth most populous in South America. Mostly mestizo with large indigenous, Afro-Peruvian, and white minorities; 83% Spanish-speaking, concentrated on the coast and in Lima.
Perversion
Perversion: former psychiatric and sexological term for pathological, non-procreative sexuality, rooted in medieval perversity, systematized by Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), replaced by paraphilia in DSM-III (1980).
Pet cemetery
Pet cemetery: burial ground for companion animals. First known urban example in London's Hyde Park (1881); oldest operating is Hartsdale, New York (1896). Covers history, regulation, and costs.