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Sustained attention to response task
The sustained attention to response task (SART) is a psychological test measuring attention lapses, in which participants respond to digits but withhold responses to a rare target.
Swaffelen
Swaffelen (zwaffelen) is a Dutch slang verb meaning to swing the penis and tap it against an object. It gained international fame after a 2008 Taj Mahal incident.
Swahili people
Swahili people (Waswahili): coastal East Africans from Somalia to Mozambique defined by the Bantu language Kiswahili, Islam, and coastal town life; indigenous African origins with African and Asian admixture from about AD 1000.
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल)
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल), Indian activist and Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi since January 2024; former Delhi Commission for Women chairperson (2015-2024), known for anti-rape hunger strikes, the 2024 Bibhav Kumar assault case, and later defection from AAP to the BJP.
Sway House
Sway House, also Sway LA, was a TikTok content house founded January 4, 2020 by TalentX Entertainment, housing six male influencers including Bryce Hall and Josh Richards in a Bel Air mansion; it disbanded in February 2021 after pandemic party controversies.
Swedes
Swedes, or svenskar, are the people identified with Sweden, whether as citizens, speakers of Swedish, or members of an ethnic group; the boundaries of Swedishness remain contested.
Swedish Order of Freemasons
Svenska Frimurare Orden, in English the Swedish Order of Freemasons, is Sweden's sovereign Masonic Grand Lodge, formed in 1780 and also operating in western Finland with about 14,000 members.
Swinging (sexual practice)
Swinging (wife-swapping, the lifestyle): a form of consensual non-monogamy where committed couples have sex with others, usually at organized events, without romantic bonds; distinct from polyamory and open relationships; documented from 1950s America, with 1982-2016 US demographic and sexual-health data.
Swipe interface
The swipe interface is a mobile interaction pattern introduced by Tinder: users drag profile cards right to like or left to reject, and a match opens chat only when both accept.
Swiss people
Swiss people are the citizens of Switzerland, a multilingual federal republic of 26 cantons whose identity rests on shared institutions rather than a common ethnicity or language.
Sydney Johnson (valet)
Sydney Johnson (Sidney), Bahamian-born valet and footman to Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, for over 30 years, later valet to Mohamed Al-Fayed and curator of Villa Windsor's restoration; died 1990.
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951–2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who said she took part in the 1969 Stonewall uprising and co-founded STAR to shelter homeless queer youth.
Symbolic interactionism
Symbolic interactionism, coined by Herbert Blumer in 1937 and rooted in George Herbert Mead's pragmatism, is a micro-level sociological theory explaining behavior through meanings built in interaction, with Chicago and Iowa schools and labeling theory.
Symptom Checklist-90
The Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) and its revised version, the SCL-90-R, are 90-item self-report questionnaires measuring psychological symptom distress across nine domains, developed by Leonard R. Derogatis.
Synchronicity
Synchronicity is a concept introduced by Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, for the meaningful but not causally connected occurrence of events, first named in a 1930 lecture and formulated in his 1952 essay.
Synesthesia
Synesthesia is a neurological trait in which one stimulus (the inducer) involuntarily triggers another sensation (the concurrent), such as colored letters. It affects about 4% of people, runs in families, was first described by Sachs in 1812, and is diagnosed by consistency testing.
Syrian-Lebanese diaspora in the Southern Cone
The Syrian-Lebanese diaspora in the Southern Cone is the population of immigrants from Ottoman Syria and Lebanon and their descendants, living mainly in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay.
Syrians
Syrians (السوريون) are the people of the Syrian Arab Republic, ~27.43 million in January 2026, Arabic-speaking with Kurdish, Turkmen, Assyrian and other minorities; the 2011 conflict displaced half the pre-war population, and mass returns have followed the December 2024 government change.
Székelys
Székelys (Szeklers, Romanian Secui) are a Hungarian-speaking population of eastern Transylvania, Romania, historically frontier guards of the Kingdom of Hungary; 500,000–700,000 live in the Székely Land, with disputed origins and active autonomy movement.
T. Cullen Davis
T. Cullen Davis (Thomas Cullen Davis, born 1933) is a Fort Worth oilman, son of "Stinky" Davis, tried and acquitted in the 1976 Mockingbird Lane mansion murders of Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and in murder-for-hire trials; never convicted.
Taboo
Taboo, from Tongan tapu recorded by Captain Cook in 1777, is a social prohibition enforced by sanctions. Covers Polynesian origins, Mary Douglas's anthropology, incest taboos, taboo language psychology, and changing taboos.
Tad Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (1853–1871), youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, was the mischievous White House child who survived the 1862 typhoid fever that killed Willie, and died at 18 in Chicago, probably of pneumonia.
Tadd Roosevelt
James "Tadd" Roosevelt (1879-1958), also called Taddy Roosevelt, nephew of Franklin D. Roosevelt and son of "Rosey" Roosevelt and Helen Astor, whose marriage to Sadie Messinger caused a 1900 scandal, estrangement from the Roosevelts, and a Salvation Army bequest.
Tagalog people
Tagalog people (Taga-ilog, "from the river") are the largest Philippine ethnolinguistic group, 28,273,666 people or 26.0% of the 2020 census household population, native to Luzon; their language underlies Filipino, the national language.
Tagore family (ঠাকুর পরিবার)
Tagore family (ঠাকুর পরিবার), Bengali Brahmin family of Kolkata's Jorasanko, anglicized from Thakur; central to the Bengal Renaissance and Brahmo Samaj, producing Rabindranath Tagore, first Asian Nobel laureate, and the Bengal School of Art founders.
Tai peoples
Tai peoples: ethnic groups of mainland Southeast Asia and southern China speaking Tai languages of the Kra-Dai family; called Dai in China, Shan in Myanmar, Lao in Laos; southern-China origin, nearly 100 million Kra-Dai speakers.
Tail suspension test
The tail suspension test is a behavioral assay in which a mouse is suspended by its tail for about six minutes and immobility time is measured to screen antidepressant drugs.
Taíno
The Taíno, also known as the Taino people or Island Arawaks, were an Arawakan-speaking Caribbean people inhabiting Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico at the time of Columbus.
Taira clan (平氏)
Taira clan (平氏, Heike): imperial-descended warrior house of Heian Japan; under Kiyomori dominated the court 1156–1185, then destroyed by the Minamoto in the Genpei War at Dannoura (1185).
Taiwanese indigenous peoples
Taiwanese indigenous peoples (原住民族) are Austronesian peoples of Taiwan; 16 groups were long recognized, and the Siraya became the 17th in July 2026 under the 2025 Pingpu (Plains Indigenous) Status Act following Constitutional Court Interpretation No. 17.