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Regression (psychology)
Regression, or psychological regression, is a return to earlier, infantile patterns of thought or behavior; Freud described it as an unconscious defense mechanism under stress.
Reinaldo Herrera
Reinaldo Herrera Guevara (1933-2025), Venezuelan aristocrat, fifth Marqués de la Torre Casa, Vanity Fair special-projects editor, and husband of designer Carolina Herrera; secured interviews with Marcos, Arafat, Gaddafi, and Noriega and guarded the Best Dressed List.
Reinforcement
Reinforcement, in psychology, is any consequence that increases the future probability of a behavior; positive/negative denote adding/removing a stimulus. Rooted in Thorndike's law of effect and Skinner's operant conditioning, it underlies reinforcement schedules and dopamine-based reinforcement learning.
Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
Friendship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: Palm Beach neighbors from the late 1980s, at least seven flights on Epstein's jet in the 1990s, a 2004 falling out, and disputed claims in the released Epstein files.
Relationship of Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein
The relationship of Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein was a financial and business association that began in the mid-1980s. Epstein became a trusted adviser to Wexner and received broad authority over his.
Relationship of Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein
The friendship between Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), Duke of York, and Jeffrey Epstein: met via Ghislaine Maxwell around 1999, contact continued past Epstein's 2008 conviction, Giuffre's 2021 lawsuit settled in 2022, and Andrew lost all titles in 2025.
Religious discrimination
Religious discrimination: unfavorable treatment based on religion or belief, or lack of it. Covered by Title VII, the UN 1981 Declaration, and EU law; measured by Pew and FRA surveys of harassment and hiring bias.
Religious ecstasy
Religious ecstasy is an altered state of consciousness in religious contexts, expressed in possession, shamanism, devotional emotion, and meditation; induced by drumming, fasting, dancing, sleep deprivation, and pain.
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Indiana)
Indiana RFRA (Senate Bill 101, Ind. Code 34-13-9), signed by Governor Mike Pence March 26, 2015, effective July 1, 2015: imposes strict scrutiny on government burdens of religious exercise and, unlike the federal RFRA, applies in private litigation; amended April 2, 2015 amid national backlash.
Religious views on female genital mutilation
Religious views on female genital mutilation, also known as Khifaḍ, cover the stances of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism toward the practice. No religious text condones it, yet many communities see it as a religious requirement.
Religious views on same-sex marriage
Survey of religious positions on same-sex marriage across Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, with US and global opinion data, denominational splits, and legal conscience protections.
Remarriage
Remarriage is marriage after divorce or widowhood. About 40% of new U.S. marriages are remarriages; they divorce more often than first marriages, often form stepfamilies, and favor men's remarriage rates.
Remote Associates Test
The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a psychometric test that measures creative thinking by asking respondents to find a fourth word linking three seemingly unrelated words.
Remote viewing
Remote viewing is the claimed psychic ability to describe distant or unseen targets, studied from the 1970s at SRI by Targ and Puthoff and funded by the CIA and DIA under Project Star Gate until its 1995 termination.
Rennie Davis
Rennie Davis (Rennard Cordon Davis, 1940-2021) was an SDS leader, MOBE project director, and Chicago Seven defendant convicted of inciting a riot and later overturned on appeal; he later followed Guru Maharaj Ji and worked on environmental projects.
Repatriation
Repatriation is the return of a person to their country of origin or nationality, most prominently of refugees and prisoners of war, whose right of return is protected under international law.
Repatriation of Koreans from Japan
The repatriation of Koreans from Japan was the return of ethnic Korean residents to Korea, mass voluntary after 1945 and state-coordinated to North Korea from 1959.
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status
The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) is a brief neuropsychological test battery for adults, screening cognition in about 20 to 30 minutes.
Reply guy
Reply guy: derogatory internet slang for a person, usually a man, who persistently replies to social media posts, especially women's, with unsolicited, condescending, or flirtatious comments; coined on Twitter in the mid-2010s, catalogued in nine types in 2018, and now also a name for reply-based account growth on X.
Representativeness heuristic
Representativeness heuristic: judgment of probability by resemblance to a category prototype, proposed by Kahneman and Tversky (1972); produces base-rate neglect, sample-size neglect, and the conjunction fallacy, and differs from the availability heuristic, which judges by ease of recall.
Repressed memory
Repressed memory: the Freudian concept that trauma can be unconsciously blocked and later recovered, central to the 1990s memory wars; contested by false-memory research, with dissociative amnesia as its substitute term.
Rescue of Jessica McClure
Rescue of Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica"), the October 1987 recovery of an 18-month-old girl trapped 22 feet deep in an 8-inch-wide abandoned well in Midland, Texas, for about 58 hours, freed via a parallel shaft on live television.
Research interview
A research interview is a conversation a researcher guides, records, and treats as data to answer a research question, ranging from structured to unstructured formats.
Resentment
Resentment is a persistent moral emotion arising from perceived injustice, distinct from envy; its philosophical history runs from Butler and Smith through Strawson's reactive attitudes to Nietzsche and Scheler's ressentiment.
Reservation in India
Reservation in India, or the quota system for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, and EWS, sets aside legislative seats, government posts, and educational places, capped at 50 percent for caste quotas under Indra Sawhney with a separate 10 percent EWS quota.
Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu
Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu is a system of caste-based quotas in education and public services, reserving 69 percent of seats and posts for specific communities since 1990.
Resettlement and villagization in Ethiopia
Resettlement and villagization were related programs of state-directed population relocation in Ethiopia, implemented most extensively under the Marxist Derg military government from 1974 to 1991.
Resettlement of Thracian refugees in Bulgaria
The resettlement of Thracian refugees in Bulgaria was the settlement of Bulgarian refugees from Thrace, mainly after the 1913 Ottoman expulsions and the 1920 cession to Greece.
Residential school denialism
Residential school denialism in Canada is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about the Indian Residential School system to undermine truth and reconciliation; measured at roughly one in five Canadians, it surged after the 2021 Kamloops unmarked-graves announcements and prompted education programs and criminalization debates.
Resource mobilization
Resource mobilization theory, associated with McCarthy and Zald's 1977 paper, explains social movements through resources, organization, and political opportunity rather than grievances, displacing breakdown theories and later spawning political process and digital-era reformulations.