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Reaction time task
A reaction time task measures how quickly a person responds to a stimulus, in simple, choice, and go/no-go forms, serving as an index of processing speed.
Reading the Mind in the Eyes test
The Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET) is a psychology task in which a participant infers a person's mental state from photographs of the eyes alone.
Realist evaluation
Realist evaluation is a theory-driven evaluation method in social science, set out by Pawson and Tilley in 1997, that explains what works for whom, in what circumstances, and how.
Reality distortion field
The reality distortion field is an imaginary force field attributed to Steve Jobs, coined by engineers on the Macintosh team in 1981 to describe his persuading anyone of anything.
Reappraisal task
The reappraisal task is an experimental paradigm in emotion research in which participants reinterpret negative pictures or film clips, with the drop in negative affect scoring their reappraisal ability.
Rebecca Musser
Rebecca Musser (Rebecca Wall), former FLDS member and 19th wife of Rulon Jeffs, testified over 20 times against Warren Jeffs, aided the YFZ Ranch evidence work, and wrote The Witness Wore Red (2013).
Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker (born 1969), American writer and activist, daughter of Alice Walker; coined "third wave" feminism in her 1992 Ms. article "Becoming the Third Wave" and co-founded the Third Wave Fund; author of Black, White, and Jewish.
Recall (memory)
Recall (memory): generating stored information without the item present as a cue, contrasted with recognition. Covers free recall, cued recall, encoding specificity, the testing effect, and clinical recall-versus-recognition testing.
Recall test
A recall test measures memory by asking a person to reproduce previously learned material from memory, including free recall without cues and cued recall with a cue at test.
Reciprocity (social psychology)
Reciprocity (social psychology): the norm of reciprocity, Gouldner's 1960 formulation, obligation to repay gifts and favors, Regan's Coca-Cola experiment, and direct and indirect reciprocity.
Recognition memory test
A recognition memory test is a behavioral paradigm in which a person studies a list of items and later judges each as old or new, measuring episodic memory accuracy.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe covers marriage, registered partnerships, civil unions, and cohabitation statuses. Denmark pioneered registered partnerships in 1989; the Netherlands led on marriage in 2001; the ECtHR (Fedotova) and CJEU (Coman, C-713/23) drive cross-border recognition.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy: civil unions (unioni civili) under the Cirinnà law 76/2016, in force 5 June 2016, following Constitutional Court judgment 138/2010 and ECtHR Oliari v. Italy (2015); no same-sex marriage, adoption excluded, 2,936 unions in 2024.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Liechtenstein
Recognition of same-sex unions in Liechtenstein: registered partnerships since September 1, 2011 (68.8% referendum approval) and same-sex marriage under the amended Marriage Act from January 1, 2025, making Liechtenstein the last German-speaking country with marriage for all.
Recognition of same-sex unions in the Czech Republic
Same-sex unions in the Czech Republic (registrované partnerství, now partnerství) are recognized via registered partnership from 2006 and a Civil Code partnership from 1 January 2025, largely equal to marriage but without same-sex marriage itself.
Redbone (ethnicity)
Redbone (ethnicity): label for mixed-ancestry tri-racial isolate communities of the Louisiana Neutral Strip and east Texas, also a pejorative for light-skinned Black people; distinct from the Redbone rock band and the coonhound breed.
Reddy (రెడ్డి)
Reddy (రెడ్డి), also spelled Reddi, is a Telugu-speaking dominant landowning caste of southern India, historically village headmen and medieval chiefs under the Kakatiyas; distinct from the tribal Reddis of the Eastern Ghats.
Redeemed Zoomer
Redeemed Zoomer, real name Richard Ackerman (born 2002), is an American Presbyterian YouTuber and seminary student whose denominations explainer passed 14.5 million views and who leads Operation Reconquista, a Gen Z conservative-reform movement targeting mainline Protestant churches, notably the PCUSA.
Redneck
Redneck: slang, usually derogatory, term for a poor rural white Southerner, from the sunburned necks of field laborers; first recorded 1830 (Presbyterians, Fayetteville NC); later a coalfield badge of class solidarity and a reclaimed identity.
Redskin
Redskin is an English slur for a Native American; originally a self-referential term (1769, via French peau-rouge), it became pejorative, drew trademark cancellations against Washington's NFL team, and was retired by the franchise in 2020.
Reduced affect display
Reduced affect display, also called blunted affect or emotional blunting, is diminished outward emotional expression through face, voice, and gestures. It affects about 30% of people with schizophrenia, is a negative symptom, and is rated with instruments such as the BNSS, CAINS, and SANS.
Reem Alsalem
Reem Alsalem, Jordanian UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls since 1 August 2021; former UNHCR official; known for climate-crisis, sex-based-violence and mothers reports and gender-identity controversies.
Reflective learning
Reflective learning is a pedagogical and psychological approach in which learners deliberately review and analyze their experiences to improve future practice, underpinning training in nursing and medicine.
Reflective listening
Reflective listening is a communication technique in which the listener restates or paraphrases a speaker's thoughts and feelings as a statement, a core skill of person-centered therapy and motivational interviewing.
Reflective writing
Reflective writing is the practice of describing and analyzing one's own experiences in writing to promote learning and emotional processing, used in education, professional training, and therapy.
Reform Club
The Reform Club is a private members' club at 104 Pall Mall, London, founded in 1836 by Radicals and Whigs after the Great Reform Act; Charles Barry built its 1841 Italian Renaissance clubhouse, and Jules Verne set Phileas Fogg's wager there.
Refractory period (sex)
Sexual refractory period (post-ejaculation refractory time, PERT): the phase after male orgasm and ejaculation when erection and further ejaculation are inhibited, lasting minutes to days and lengthening with age; absent or controversial in females, with serotonin-related mechanisms proposed.
Refugees in Uganda
Uganda hosts more refugees than any other African country, over 2 million by mid-2026, mainly South Sudanese and Congolese, governed through rural settlements with land allocations rather than camps.
Refusenik
Refusenik (отказник): a Soviet Jew denied an exit visa after applying to emigrate, mostly to Israel, from the late 1960s; organized dissident movement, Jackson-Vanik pressure, Shcharansky case, mass departures after 1987.
Regina Louise
Regina Louise, American author and foster care advocate, memoirist of Somebody's Someone (2003) and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe (2018), adopted at 41 by the counselor once barred from adopting her, subject of the 2019 Lifetime film I Am Somebody's Child.