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Sri Lankan Moors
Sri Lankan Moors, or Sri Lanka Moors, are a Tamil-speaking Sunni Muslim ethnic group, 10.47 percent of the 2024 census population, of Arab-Persian merchant descent, distinct from Tamils and Sinhalese.
Sri Lankan sporting disappearances
Sri Lankan sporting disappearances: athletes and officials vanishing during international events abroad, most famously the 23-member fake 2004 handball team in Germany and ten missing athletes from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, usually to escape civil war or economic crisis.
Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamils, also called Ceylon or Jaffna Tamils, are an ethnic group about 11.2% of Sri Lanka's population, descended from ancient migrants from southern India, concentrated in the north and east, mostly Hindu Tamil-speaking, and distinct from Hill Country Tamils.
SSPX Resistance
The SSPX Resistance is the traditionalist Catholic movement founded in March 2015 by bishops Richard Williamson and Jean-Michel Faure after breaking with the Society of St. Pius X over its Rome policy; excommunicated, tiny, and rejecting dialogue with the Vatican.
Stan Romanek
Stan Romanek, also known as Stanley Romanek, is an American author and alien-abduction claimant from Colorado whose claims drew national coverage and a 2013 documentary.
Standpoint theory
Standpoint theory is a family of epistemological positions that emerged in the 1970s. It claims that marginalized perspectives are epistemically advantaged and that research should begin with their lives.
Stanford marshmallow experiment
Stanford marshmallow experiment: Walter Mischel's 1968-1974 Bing Nursery School delay-of-gratification task, offering one treat now or two after 15 minutes; famous longitudinal claims about later success have not held up in controlled replications.
Stanford prison experiment
The Stanford prison experiment, also known as the Zimbardo experiment, was a 1971 Stanford psychology study in which students playing guards abused student prisoners, ending after six days.
Stanley Armour Dunham
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992), Barack Obama's maternal grandfather, Kansas-born WWII Army sergeant under Patton, furniture salesman, who with wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu from age ten.
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), American social psychologist at Yale and CUNY; creator of the obedience-to-authority shock experiments (65% full compliance) and the Small World Experiment behind 'Six Degrees of Separation.'
State funeral
State funeral: government-organized public funeral honoring heads of state, former leaders, or eminent citizens, with lying-in-state, processions, and military honours; Canadian entitlement rules, US Capitol traditions, and subnational variants.
State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory
The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) is a self-report questionnaire measuring momentary anger, trait anger, and anger expression; its 1999 revision, the STAXI-2, is the most commonly used anger measure.
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), developed by Charles Spielberger and published in 1970, is a 40-item self-report questionnaire that separately measures momentary state anxiety and stable trait anxiety.
Stateless nation
Stateless nation: an ethnic or national group, such as the Kurds (~30 million across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria) or Palestinians, sharing identity and homeland but lacking a sovereign state; distinct from individual statelessness.
Stateless society
Stateless societies are communities that maintain order, settle disputes, and organize collective life without centralized government, through kinship, custom law, mediation, and persuasion; classic examples include the Ifugao and pre-colonial African segmentary societies.
Stay-at-home mother
Stay-at-home mother: a mother not employed for pay outside the home, also called homemaker or housewife. In 2012, 29% of U.S. mothers (10.4 million) were at home; 34% lived in poverty.
Steal This Book
Steal This Book is a 1971 guide to living cheaply, protesting, and evading authority by American activist Abbie Hoffman, published by Pirate Editions and distributed by Grove Press.
Stepfamily
Stepfamily: a family formed when one or both partners in a couple bring children from a previous relationship; also called blended family. Covers definitions, US prevalence (42% of adults report close stepfamily ties), dynamics, and child-outcome research.
Stephany Hollihan
Stephany Hollihan Vasconez, Ecuadorian fashion designer from Guayaquil and founder of Sensi Studio (2010), known for toquilla-straw Panama hats and artisanal resortwear sold in over 15 countries; died 19 August 2026 in a Kenya helicopter crash with her husband, intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi.
Stepmother
Stepmother: a woman partnered to a child's biological parent, not the biological mother. Also called father-stepmother families. Key facts: 19% of US children with a stepparent lived with father and stepmother; stepmothers face role ambiguity, more conflict, and give less support than stepfathers.
Stereopsis
Stereopsis (stereoscopic vision) is depth perception from binocular disparity, discovered by Wheatstone in 1838. Distinguished from monocular depth cues; measured clinically by stereoacuity tests such as Titmus, Randot, TNO, Frisby.
Stereotype
Stereotype: an oversimplified belief associating traits with a social group, introduced by Walter Lippmann in Public Opinion (1922) from a printing term. Distinguished from prejudice (affect) and discrimination (behavior), studied as explicit and implicit cognition.
Stereotype threat
Stereotype threat, from Steele and Aronson (1995), is the risk of confirming a negative group stereotype in relevant situations, disrupting performance. Covers working-memory mechanisms, self-affirmation and belonging interventions, and meta-analytic evidence on effect sizes and publication bias.
Stereotypes of African Americans
Stereotypes of African Americans: demeaning beliefs and caricatures (Sambo, Mammy, Jezebel, Black Buck) rooted in slavery and blackface minstrelsy, spread through advertising and film, persisting in news and screen media per Pew and Common Sense Media data.
Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States
Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States, also called perpetual foreigner, model minority, and yellow peril tropes, cast Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans as unassimilable foreigners and uniformly high achievers, driving discrimination and media underrepresentation.
Stereotypes of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
Stereotypes of Hispanic and Latino Americans in U.S. media: the six classic Hollywood types (el bandido, harlot, buffoons, Latin lover, dark lady), criminality and immigration tropes in news and TV, and the underrepresentation data behind them.
Stereotypes of Jews
Stereotypes of Jews: false beliefs about Jewish greed, dual loyalty, and secret power, rooted in early Christian anti-Judaism and medieval tropes like the blood libel, measured today by the ADL Global 100 index.
Stereotypes of South Asians
Stereotypes of South Asians: oversimplified beliefs about South Asian people and the diaspora, including comic-relief media tropes (Apu, Raj), the perpetual foreigner and terrorist slurs, workplace and healthcare discrimination, and recent shifts in screen representation.
Stereotypes of white Americans
Stereotypes of white Americans: beliefs ascribed to white Americans by other groups, including high competence, racism, and entitlement; studied via minority attitudes, class-based stereotypes like "white trash," and competence downshift in speech.
Sterilization of Native American women
Sterilization of Native American women: IHS-performed procedures, 1960s-1970s, often without informed consent; GAO found 3,406 sterilizations in four service areas, 1973-1976; ended by 1978 HEW regulations.