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Discovery learning
Discovery learning is a teaching method in which students acquire knowledge by exploring problems themselves, named by Jerome S. Bruner in 1961 and best used with guidance.
Discrimination
Discrimination is unjust treatment based on race, sex, religion, disability, or origin, spanning direct, indirect, and structural forms. Covered via UN treaties, EEOC employment law, field-experiment evidence, and global prevalence data.
Discrimination against autistic people
Discrimination against autistic people, also called persecution of people with autism, is unfavorable treatment in employment, education, healthcare, and criminal justice, with documented employment gaps and hate crime.
Discrimination against Otaku (オタク差別)
Discrimination against otaku (オタク差別) is stigma toward anime, manga, and game fans: coined derogatorily in 1983, intensified by the 1989 Miyazaki murder moral panic, partially eased by mainstreaming since the late 2000s.
Discrimination testing
Discrimination testing is a family of sensory evaluation methods that tests whether people can perceive a difference between two products, using forced-choice formats like the triangle test.
Disgust
Disgust is a basic human emotion of revulsion and avoidance, classically defined as food-related revulsion at oral incorporation of offensive objects; it extends to moral disgust, shows insula-based neural markers, varies across cultures, and resists extinction in OCD.
Disney family
The Disney family: descendants of Walt and Roy O. Disney, founders of the 1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Includes Lillian Disney, daughters Diane Disney Miller and Sharon Disney Lund, the Roy + Patricia Disney Family Foundation, and a family stake of under 3% as of 2010.
Displacement (psychology)
Displacement (psychology): a psychoanalytic defense mechanism transferring feelings from their original object to a less threatening target; classified as a neurotic-level defense, with contested empirical support.
Disposal of human corpses
Disposal of human corpses (body disposition): burial, cremation, embalming, and newer methods alkaline hydrolysis and human composting; worldwide scale, FTC Funeral Rule, environmental impacts, and country-by-country regulation.
Dissociation (psychology)
Dissociation (psychology): disruption of the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, and behavior; rooted in Pierre Janet's trauma work; spans detachment and compartmentalization forms, dissociative disorders, and ongoing trauma-model debates.
Dissociative Experiences Scale
The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) is a 28-item self-report questionnaire measuring dissociative symptoms such as amnesia, absorption, and depersonalization, introduced by Eve Bernstein and Frank Putnam in 1986.
Distance counseling
Distance counseling, also known as telepsychology or telemental health, is the delivery of psychotherapy and counseling remotely by phone, video, email, chat, or text, which became mainstream during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Distractibility
Distractibility is difficulty focusing because attention is easily diverted by extraneous stimuli, a nonspecific finding seen in ADHD, mania, and aging, and among people with no disorder.
Divergent thinking
Divergent thinking, also called lateral thinking, is creative thinking that generates many varied answers to open-ended problems, contrasted with convergent thinking; proposed by J. P. Guilford and measured mainly by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
Diversity Immigrant Visa
Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV), or green card lottery: annual U.S. program run by the State Department under the Immigration Act of 1990, awarding 50,000 visas by lottery to natives of low-admission countries with a high school education or qualifying work experience.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), related to EDI and DEIB, is an organizational framework of policies and programs to increase representation, ensure fair treatment, and foster belonging in institutions.
Divorce demography
Divorce demography studies divorce frequency, timing, and social distribution using crude and refined divorce rates and cohort measures. Key findings: US rates rose fourfold 1900–2018 then declined; divorce law explains little; education and age stratify risk.
Divorce law by country
Divorce law by country: national rules for dissolving marriage, distinguishing fault-based grounds from no-fault and mutual-consent regimes. Covers California's 1969 first US no-fault law, European reforms, Korea, Indonesia, Australia, extrajudicial EU divorce, and measured divorce-rate effects.
Dog meat consumption in South Korea
Dog meat consumption in South Korea (개식용), a centuries-old stamina food eaten as boshintang, becomes illegal to breed, slaughter, or sell under the 2024 Special Act effective 7 February 2027, with 82% of farms already closed.
Doggy style
Doggy style (doggie style) is a rear-entry sex position with the penetrated partner on all fours. Covers etymology (1940s "dog style", 1970s term), survey popularity, comfort adjustments, and penile fracture risk data.
Dogon people
The Dogon are a West African people of central Mali's Bandiagara Escarpment, known for cliff villages, masked dama funerals, and the contested Griaule ethnography and Sirius claims, reexamined by van Beek in 1991.
Doikayt (דאָקייט)
Doikayt (דאָקייט), Yiddish for "hereness", a Jewish diasporist political concept opposing territorial Zionism; central to the Jewish Labour Bund's program of socialism, Yiddish culture, and diaspora autonomy.
Dolly Sinatra
Dolly Sinatra (1896–1977), Hoboken midwife, Democratic ward boss, and Prohibition saloonkeeper, mother of Frank Sinatra; known as "Hatpin Dolly," she built his early singing career.
Dom people
The Dom (Nawar, Ghajar) are Middle Eastern peripatetic communities of Indian origin, speaking Domari, an endangered Indo-Aryan language distinct from Romani; roughly 5 million live across Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Egypt.
Domestic partnership in California
A domestic partnership in California is a legal relationship registered with the Secretary of State giving partners the same rights and duties as spouses under state law.
Domestic partnership in the United States
Domestic partnership in the United States: a state or local legal status for unmarried couples, same-sex or opposite-sex, granting rights like hospital visitation and insurance; unrecognized federally, diminished after Obergefell 2015.
Domestic worker
Domestic workers, also known as domestic staff, are people employed by households globally. The International Labour Organization defined the category in 2011, noting 52.6 million workers in 2010.
Domicide
Domicide is the deliberate destruction of home, a term coined by geographers J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith in 2001, spanning extreme wartime destruction and everyday displacement, with recent campaigns to codify it as an international crime.
Dominatrix
Dominatrix (plural dominatrices, also pro-domme): a woman taking the dominant role in BDSM, often paid; works in dungeons, uses SSC/RACK consent frameworks, faces layered sex-work and kink stigma, and mostly does not have sex with clients.
Dominion Society of Canada
The Dominion Society of Canada is an Ottawa-based advocacy group founded in July 2025 by Daniel Tyrie. It promotes Canadian nationalism and a policy of "remigration."