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Dona Celeste
Dona Celeste (Celeste Arantes do Nascimento, 1922–2024), Brazilian mother of footballer Pelé and wife of Dondinho; born in Três Corações, honored as Brazilian Mother of the Year 1966, died aged 101 in Santos.
Donald Crowhurst
Donald Crowhurst (1932–1969), British businessman and amateur sailor, faked his 1968–69 Golden Globe solo circumnavigation, drifted in the Atlantic aboard the Teignmouth Electron, and vanished; his abandoned trimaran was found 10 July 1969.
Donald Trump and religion
Donald Trump and religion: his Presbyterian upbringing under Norman Vincent Peale, 2020 shift to nondenominational Christianity, the white evangelical voting bloc, the White House Faith Office, and public doubts about his personal religiosity.
Donald Winnicott
Donald Woods Winnicott (1896–1971), English pediatrician and psychoanalyst, British object-relations school figure; coined transitional object, holding environment, good enough mother, and true/false self.
Donation
Donation: a voluntary, gratuitous transfer of property (donatio) from donor to donee with no consideration; covers charitable money gifts, bequests, and mutual aid, with global participation near six in ten people in 2025.
Donation task
The donation task is an incentivized behavioral paradigm, usually a dictator game variant, in which a participant decides how much of a sum to donate to a charity.
Dönmeh
Dönmeh (Doenmeh), Ottoman sect of Sabbatai Zevi's followers who outwardly converted to Islam in 1666 and 1683 while keeping Sabbatean faith secretly; split into Yakubi, Karakaş, and Kapancı, centered in Salonica, moved to Turkey in 1923.
Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway (born 1944, Denver) is an American feminist theorist and biologist, UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness professor emerita, author of A Cyborg Manifesto (1985) and Situated Knowledges (1988), 2025 Erasmus Prize and Venice Golden Lion recipient.
Donna Rice Hughes
Donna Rice Hughes, American Internet safety advocate, president and CEO of Enough Is Enough; formerly the woman at the center of the 1987 Gary Hart presidential campaign scandal.
Doomer
Doomer is a 2018 4chan Wojak meme character, a depressed young man in a black beanie and hoodie with a nihilistic outlook, contrasted with Bloomer, tied to doomer wave music and older peak-oil usage.
Door-in-the-face technique
Door-in-the-face technique: a two-step compliance procedure, first demonstrated by Cialdini et al. in 1975, in which a refused extreme request makes a following moderate request more likely to be accepted; meta-analyses find small effects (r about .08-.14).
Dora Marie Sigar
Dora Marie Sigar, also known as Dora Soemitro, was an Indonesian nurse from Manado, wife of economist Sumitro Djojohadikusumo and mother of President Prabowo Subianto.
Dörbet
The Dörbet (Дөрвөд), also spelled Derbet, are an Oirat Mongol tribe of the 15th to 18th century Four Oirat confederation, today Mongolia's second largest Mongol subgroup.
Dore Strauch
Dore Strauch (also spelled Dora), Berlin-born settler who with Dr. Friedrich Ritter colonized uninhabited Floreana, Galápagos, in 1929; survivor of the Galápagos Affair and author of the 1936 memoir Satan Came to Eden.
Dorothy Wiggins
Dorothy Katz Wiggins (born August 14, 1925), American centenarian social media influencer, socialite, and former stylist on Instagram and TikTok; still plays tennis at 100, tossed the 2025 US Open coin, and is distinct from the Georgia pediatrician Dorothy P. Wiggins.
Dot-probe task
The dot-probe task, also called the Visual Probe Task, is a reaction-time paradigm measuring attentional bias toward emotional stimuli, introduced by MacLeod, Mathews, and Tata in 1986 and used in attention bias modification.
Double bind
Double bind: a communicative trap in which conflicting messages at different levels make every response wrong. Introduced by Gregory Bateson, Jackson, Haley, and Weakland in 1956 as a theory of schizophrenia; later applied to gender, organizations, and AI.
Double penetration
Double penetration (DP) is simultaneous penetration of one person in two orifices, usually vaginal and anal. Appears in 17-22% of some pornography samples; requires a new condom per act, ample water- or silicone-based lube, and never two condoms at once.
Double-barrelled name
A double-barrelled name combines two surnames into one, hyphenated or spaced. Formed by marriage, inheritance, or parental choice; historically British upper-class, now widespread in Britain, Ireland, and former British-settled countries, distinct from Spanish two-surname systems.
Doublethink
Doublethink is a Newspeak word coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) for holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accepting both, distinct from doublespeak and hypocrisy, and now also used in post-truth commentary and psychology research.
Doug Batchelor
Doug Batchelor (born 1957) is an American Seventh-day Adventist evangelist, author of The Richest Caveman, and president of Amazing Facts International since 1994, hosting Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor and Bible Answers Live.
Douglas Gowan
Douglas Gowan (c. 1942–2018) was a British NFU consultant and whistleblower who traced deformed livestock near Brofiscin and Maendy quarries in south Wales to Monsanto's PCB dumping, survived a 1970s corporate smear campaign, and gave a final testimony recorded by Michael Sheen.
Down-low (sexual slang)
Down-low (DL) is 1990s African American slang for secrecy, later meaning men who present as heterosexual while secretly having sex with men; research finds no link to elevated HIV risk.
Dowry
Dowry: wealth transfer from a bride's family to the groom or his family at marriage, the reverse of bride price. Rare cross-culturally (3% of Ethnographic Atlas sample), concentrated in South Asia where over 80% of marriages in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan involve it; widely decried for links to violence against women.
Dowsing
Dowsing, also called divining or water witching, uses forked sticks, L-rods, or pendulums to find underground water or minerals. Controlled tests show chance-level results; rod movement is the ideomotor effect.
Doyle
Doyle is an Irish surname, from Ó Dubhghaill, "descendant of Dubhghall", originally a byname for darker-haired Danish Vikings, and now one of Ireland's most common surnames, especially in Leinster.
Dr. Karl
Dr. Karl is the professional name of Karl Kruszelnicki AM, Australian science communicator, broadcaster, and author; Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney, 48 books, ABC Radio for 40 years, Kalinga Prize 2019.
Dr. Simi
Dr. Simi is the mascot of Farmacias Similares, the Mexican generic-pharmacy chain founded in 1997 by Víctor González Torres; the bald, mustachioed doctor based on Joaquín Pardavé became a global concert phenomenon after fans began throwing plush dolls to artists such as Aurora and Lady Gaga.
Drag Queen Story Hour
Drag Queen Story Hour, now Drag Story Hour, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Michelle Tea in San Francisco in 2015 in which drag performers read picture books to children at libraries and schools, known for children's literacy programming and the surrounding protests and legislation.
Dramaturgy (sociology)
Dramaturgy (sociology), also called Goffman's dramaturgical analysis, is Erving Goffman's framework from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956/1959) treating social interaction as performance, with front stage, back stage, and impression management.