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Source (journalism)
Source (journalism): the person, document, or origin supplying facts for a news story, also called 新闻来源. Covers attribution levels, anonymous-source rules, verification, and ethics codes from AP, Washington Post, and SPJ.
South Asian diaspora
South Asian diaspora: people of South Asian origin living outside India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and neighboring countries; one of the world's largest diasporas, shaped by indenture (1830s–1917), the 1947 Partition, and postwar flows to the Gulf, North America, and Europe.
South Korean defectors
South Korean defectors are people from North Korea who fled, took citizenship in South Korea, and then left to seek refugee protection elsewhere.
South Slavs
South Slavs: the Slavic peoples of the Balkans, including Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, and Bulgarians; settled the peninsula in the 6th and 7th centuries.
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are people who fled conflict in South Sudan for asylum in Uganda, largely through land-based settlements like Bidibidi, opened in 2016.
Southern chivalry
Southern chivalry: the antebellum South's elite white male honor code of duels, reputation, and Cavalier medievalism, tied to slavery; also the name of a Southern California political faction and a lasting Lost Cause image.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded in Atlanta in 1957 and led by Martin Luther King Jr. until 1968, coordinated nonviolent civil rights campaigns including Birmingham and Selma, spurring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Sovereign citizen movement
Sovereign citizen movement: anti-government extremists, also called freemen on the land, claiming immunity from US law via strawman and redemption theories and UCC filings; courts uniformly reject these pseudolegal arguments as frivolous.
Soy boy
Soy boy (soyboy, soy-boy) is an alt-right internet insult for men seen as effeminate or liberal, based on the disproven claim that soy's phytoestrogens lower male testosterone; it emerged on 4chan in 2017 alongside milk-chugging imagery.
Space colonization
Space colonization: establishing self-sustaining human settlements beyond Earth, distinct from stations or short missions. Covers Moon, Mars and orbital habitats, radiation and life-support barriers, Artemis timelines, and space law.
Spaced learning
Spaced learning is a study method in which learning sessions are separated by time intervals rather than delivered back to back, exploiting the spacing effect to improve long-term retention.
Spaniards
Spaniards (Españoles) are the people of Spain, defined by Spanish nationality and the historical, linguistic, and religious inheritance of the Iberian Peninsula, including regional-language speakers and a large diaspora.
Spanish immigration to Argentina
Spanish immigration to Argentina was the mass movement of people from Spain to Argentina, principally from the 1880s to the early 1960s, making Spaniards the second largest foreign-born group after Italians.
Spatial ability
Spatial ability: the capacity to generate, retain, and manipulate visual-spatial imagery; the CHC Gv factor with 11 first-order factors. Key facts: sex differences (d = 0.155 in visual-spatial working memory), STEM prediction, trainability, and tests like the Mental Rotations Test.
Spatial intelligence (psychology)
Spatial intelligence (spatial ability) in psychology: the capacity to generate, retain, and manipulate mental images, studied via tests like the Vandenberg Mental Rotations Test and PSVT:R; a CHC-theory factor (Gv) predicting STEM achievement and trainable through interventions.
Special needs
Special needs is a euphemism for disability, common in education and speech but rejected by UN guidance, APA and ASHA style guides, and many disabled people; a 530-person study found it reads more negatively than disability.
Speed dating
Speed dating: organized brief one-on-one dating encounters with mutual-yes matching, created in 1998 Los Angeles by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo for Jewish singles, and widely used as a research paradigm for initial romantic attraction.
Spiral of silence
Spiral of silence: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann's 1974 public opinion theory; minority holders stay silent fearing isolation, letting perceived majorities dominate discourse and media. Meta-analytic pooled r = .10.
Splitting (psychology)
Splitting (psychology): a primitive psychoanalytic defense mechanism dividing people and self-images into all-good and all-bad categories; central to Klein's paranoid-schizoid position, Kernberg's borderline organization, and BPD clinical presentation.
Spolok svätého Vojtecha
Spolok svätého Vojtecha (Society of Saint Adalbert, SSV) is the largest and oldest Catholic association in Slovakia, founded in 1870 in Trnava by Andrej Radlinský.
Spontaneous alternation
Spontaneous alternation is an unrewarded rodent behavioral paradigm measuring spatial working memory through an innate tendency to choose a different maze arm on successive visits.
Spoon bending
Spoon bending, popularized by Uri Geller from 1972, is the claimed psychokinetic bending of metal spoons; tested at SRI and exposed by James Randi as a conjuring trick using pre-weakened spoons, misdirection, and sleight of hand.
Sport psychology
Sport psychology began with Norman Triplett's 1898 study of cyclists, who performed better in groups. It was formally established by organizations like NASPSPA in 1967.
Sport Relief
Sport Relief is the sporting fundraising campaign of the UK charity Comic Relief (Charity Projects), created in 2002 with BBC Sport and alternating biennially with Red Nose Day; it has raised over £420 million and is relaunching in 2026 with Grey London.
Spouse
A spouse is a person's lawfully married husband or wife, a status created by marriage that confers rights and duties and ends with death, divorce, or annulment.
Springfield pet-eating hoax
The Springfield pet-eating hoax was a false 2024 rumor claiming Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio ate pets; debunked by police and officials but amplified by Vance and Trump, causing bomb threats and fear.
Spur Posse
Spur Posse: a Lakewood, California high school clique (about 20-30 members, founded 1990 by Dana Belman) whose members scored 'points' for sexual encounters, arrested in 1993 on rape charges that prosecutors mostly dropped.
Squanto
Squanto (Tisquantum), Patuxet Wampanoag interpreter and guide for Plymouth Colony, kidnapped in 1614, sole survivor of his village, died 1622 at Manamoick.
Squaw
Squaw: English word for a Native American woman, from Algonquian (Massachusett squa) 'woman', 1630s; now a slur for Indigenous women. Removed from about 650 US federal place names by Secretarial Order 3404 and Board on Geographic Names votes in 2022-2023.
Squeegee man
Squeegee man, also squeegee kid or squeegee guy: a person who washes car windshields at traffic lights unasked and asks for payment. Notable in 1990s New York crackdowns and ongoing Baltimore enforcement debates.