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Cognitive neuropsychology
Cognitive neuropsychology studies human cognition through brain pathology, imaging, stimulation, recording, and developmental deficits. Key facts: journal founded 1984 by Max Coltheart; domains span language, memory, attention; distinct from cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology.
Cognitive processing
Cognitive processing: mental handling of information (perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning); also Cognitive Processing, Springer's International Quarterly of Cognitive Science, ISSN 1612-4782, founded 2000, edited by Marta Olivetti Belardinelli.
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, uniting psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and artificial intelligence around the idea that thought is computation over mental representations.
Cognitive task analysis
Cognitive task analysis (CTA) is a set of methods for identifying the mental processes experts use during tasks, informing the design of training and interfaces.
Cognitivism (psychology)
Cognitivism is the school of psychology holding that internal mental processes such as thinking, language, and memory are real and open to scientific study, emerging in the 1950s and 1960s as behaviorism declined.
Cogstate Brief Battery
The Cogstate Brief Battery (CBB) is a computerized neuropsychological test using playing-card stimuli that measures psychomotor function, attention, working memory, and visual learning in about 10 to 25 minutes.
Cohabitation
Cohabitation is an arrangement in which an unmarried couple share a household as an intimate partnership, now the normal way most couples in many countries begin shared lives.
Cohabitation agreement
Cohabitation agreement: a legal contract between unmarried people living together, covering finances, property, children and next of kin. Also used by non-romantic households; valid in England and Wales when made as a deed and signed.
Cold pressor test
The cold pressor test is a laboratory pain-stress paradigm in which a hand is immersed in near-freezing water while investigators measure pain responses and cardiovascular reactions.
Cold reading
Cold reading: conversational techniques for appearing to know private facts about a stranger using only the stranger's own responses. Distinct from hot reading (prior research) and warm reading; core mechanism is the Barnum effect.
Collaborative ethnography
Collaborative ethnography is a qualitative research method in anthropology in which researchers and the people they study jointly design, conduct, analyze, and write up fieldwork.
Collagua
The Collagua were an Aymara-speaking people of Peru's Colca Valley, the wealthier of two pre-Inca chiefdoms there, known for elongated head shaping and claimed descent from the volcano Collaguata.
Collective action
Collective action is group action toward a common goal, also called the collective action problem or free rider problem. Defined by Olson's 1965 Logic of Collective Action, studied via Ostrom's commons work, social movement theory, and psychology of protest participation.
Collective consciousness
Collective consciousness (conscience collective) is Émile Durkheim's 1893 concept: the shared beliefs and sentiments of a society's average members, forming a system with its own life, basis of solidarity, distinct from Jung's collective unconscious.
Collective Shout
Collective Shout, founded by Melinda Tankard Reist, is an Australian grassroots anti-pornography campaign group opposing objectification of women and sexualization of girls; known for the 2018 Sexpo lawsuit win and the 2025 Steam payment-processor campaign.
Collective unconscious
The collective unconscious is Carl Jung's concept of an inherited, shared layer of the psyche, distinct from the personal unconscious, whose structural elements are archetypes; heavily criticized by empirical psychology.
Colombian migration to Venezuela
Colombian migration to Venezuela is the sustained movement of people from Colombia to Venezuela, which ran from the 1950s into the 1990s and peaked during the 1970s oil boom.
Colonia Dignidad
Colonia Dignidad, now Villa Baviera, was a German sect colony founded by Paul Schäfer near Parral, Chile, in 1961; a site of child abuse, forced labor, and Pinochet-era detention and torture, now contested over expropriation and a memorial.
Color psychology
Color psychology studies how color perception relates to human emotion, cognition, and behavior. Also called colour psychology; rooted in Goethe's 1810 Farbenlehre; key findings include systematic color-emotion correspondences and contested red-achievement effects.
Color terminology for race
Color terminology for race covers labels like white, black, colored, mulatto, and people of color. It traces skin color as the West's primary racial classifier, shifting US census and legal usages, and current debate over people of color.
Colorado City, Arizona
Colorado City, Arizona, twin of Hildale, Utah, forms the Short Creek community, an FLDS polygamist stronghold raided in 1953, sued by the Justice Department, and transformed after court supervision ended in 2025.
Colorado Springs nightclub shooting
Colorado Springs nightclub shooting: mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQIA+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, on November 19, 2022. Shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five and wounded many before patrons subdued him; later sentenced to life plus 190 years.
Colored
Colored is a historical U.S. racial term for non-white people, especially Black Americans; used in census categories from 1820 and in the NAACP name, replaced by Black, Negro, and African American.
Colour wheel theory of love
Colour wheel theory of love: John Alan Lee's 1973 typology of six love styles, primary eros, ludus, storge and secondary mania, pragma, agape, measured by the Love Attitudes Scale.
Coloureds
Coloureds (Bruinmense, Kleurlinge) are a multiracial population group in South Africa, emerging in the late nineteenth century at the Cape and formalized by the 1950 Population Registration Act.
Colt clan incest case
The Colt clan incest case: an Australian family, pseudonym "Colt", found in 2012 in rural New South Wales practicing four generations of incest; 12 children removed, 11 with related parents, followed by criminal prosecutions from 2014.
Colville Indian Reservation
Colville Indian Reservation: north-central Washington reservation created by executive orders of April 9 and July 2, 1872 under President Grant; home of the twelve-band Confederated Tribes, 1.4 million acres, enrollment 9,045, halved by the 1892 North Half cession.
COM-B model
The COM-B model is a behavior change framework that analyzes any behavior as the product of capability, opportunity, and motivation, introduced by Susan Michie, Maartje van Stralen, and Robert West in 2011.
Comanche
The Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, The People) are a Southern Plains Native American nation of Shoshone origin, famed as horse-mounted bison hunters and the dominant power of Comanchería, now the Comanche Nation of Lawton, Oklahoma, with about 17,000 enrolled members.
Combahee River Collective
Combahee River Collective: Black feminist socialist lesbian organization founded in Boston in 1974, named for Harriet Tubman's 1863 Combahee River raid; its 1977 Statement coined "identity politics" and anticipated intersectionality.