6,078 articles
Earring Magic Ken
Earring Magic Ken is a 1993 Mattel Ken doll with a lavender mesh top, pleather vest, hoop earring, and chrome-ring necklace. Dan Savage's 'Ken Comes Out' column made it a gay icon; discontinued after six months, reportedly Mattel's best-selling Ken.
Earth Day
Earth Day, annual environmental observance on April 22 founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill; first held 1970 with 20 million US participants, global since 1990, UN-recognized as International Mother Earth Day.
Earth Liberation Front
Earth Liberation Front (ELF), radical environmental network founded 1992 in Brighton, England by former Earth First! members; decentralized leaderless cells using arson and sabotage; FBI's top domestic terror threat; no fatalities.
Earworm
Earworm (involuntary musical imagery, from German Ohrwurm; stuck song syndrome): a short tune repeating involuntarily in the mind, experienced weekly by over 85% of people, triggered by recent listening and mind-wandering, distinct from musical obsessions and hallucinations.
East Slavic name
East Slavic naming system of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians: given name, patronymic, surname. Covers patronymic suffixes (-ovich/-ivna), -enko and -ov surname types, 988 Christianization, and Ukrainian name frequencies.
East Slavs
East Slavs: the Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians, speakers of the East Slavic branch of Slavic, shaped by Kyivan Rus, the 988 Christianization, and debated ethnogenesis and homeland.
East Timor solidarity movement
The East Timor solidarity movement was an international network of activists, churches, parliamentarians, and NGOs that campaigned from 1975 to 1999 for East Timor's self-determination after Indonesia's invasion.
Easy read
Easy read is a method of adapting written information into simplified text with short sentences and supporting images, chiefly for the 1.5 million people in the UK with learning disabilities.
Eating Attitudes Test
The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) is a self-report questionnaire screening for eating disorder symptoms and attitudes, published in 1979 as the EAT-40 and shortened to the EAT-26 in 1982.
Eating Disorder Inventory
The Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) is a self-report questionnaire measuring psychological traits and symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, introduced by Garner, Olmstead, and Polivy in 1983.
EB-1 visa
The EB-1 visa is the U.S. employment-based first preference (priority workers) green card: EB-1A extraordinary ability, EB-1B outstanding professors and researchers, and EB-1C multinational executives and managers.
EB-5 visa
EB-5 visa: U.S. employment-based fifth preference immigrant investor visa, created 1990. Grants green cards for $1,050,000 ($800,000 in a TEA or infrastructure project) invested and 10 U.S. jobs created; regional center pathway dominates.
Ebira people
The Ebira people, also called Egbira or Igbira, are an ethnic group of North-Central Nigeria concentrated in the hills of central Kogi State, with Okene as their administrative center.
Eccentricity (behavior)
Eccentricity (behavior): conduct, appearance, or speech perceived as strange or unusual relative to social norms. Also a schizotypy-trait facet in DSM-5 Psychoticism, linked to Openness and schizotypal personality disorder, distinct from mental illness itself.
Echo chamber (media)
Echo chamber (media): a media environment reinforcing beliefs via like-minded peers and sources; related to Pariser's filter bubble. Evidence is split: computational homophily studies support it, surveys and Facebook experiments question its polarizing effects.
Ecofeminism
Ecofeminism, coined by Françoise d'Eaubonne in 1974, is an ideology and movement linking domination of women and degradation of nature through patriarchy and capitalism, with cultural and social strands, key texts by Merchant and Shiva, and ongoing climate justice relevance.
Ecological momentary assessment
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a data-collection method in which participants repeatedly report their current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in real time as they go about daily life.
Ecological momentary intervention
Ecological momentary intervention (EMI) is a treatment delivered to people in real time in their everyday settings, typically via a smartphone, and named by Heron and Smyth in 2010.
Ecological systems theory
Ecological systems theory is a developmental psychology framework by Urie Bronfenbrenner, first published in 1979, describing human development through nested environmental systems from family and school outward to culture.
Economic anthropology
Economic anthropology is the cross-cultural, ethnographic study of how people produce, exchange, and consume goods, a field at the interface of anthropology and economics for almost a century.
Ed Roberts (activist)
Ed Roberts (1939–1995), American disability rights activist and father of the Independent Living movement; first severely disabled UC Berkeley student, founder of the Center for Independent Living, and California Rehabilitation director.
Eddie Mabo
Eddie Koiki Mabo (29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992), Meriam man of Mer (Murray Island), led the Mabo v Queensland (No 2) case in which the High Court overturned terra nullius and recognised native title.
Edison Chen photo scandal
Edison Chen photo scandal (陳冠希裸照事件, Sexy Photos Gate), January 2008 Hong Kong privacy breach: intimate photos of actor Edison Chen with female celebrities leaked from his computer, triggering arrests, his showbiz exit, and privacy-law debates.
Edith Bouvier Beale
Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie", 1917–2002), American socialite, model, and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, lived in seclusion with her mother "Big Edie" in the decaying East Hampton mansion Grey Gardens, subject of the 1975 Maysles documentary and later a fashion icon.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
"Big Edie" Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale was an American socialite and amateur singer, aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who lived in seclusion at Grey Gardens in East Hampton.
Edo people
Edo people (also Bini), an ethnic group of Edo State, southern Nigeria, founders of the Benin Kingdom (c. 900 CE) ruled by the Oba; Edoid language, Benin Bronzes court art, 1897 British sack, ongoing bronze restitutions.
Edo society
Edo society, also called the feudal Japan hierarchy, was Japan's class order under Tokugawa rule from 1603 to 1868, ranked as samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants.
Edoardo Agnelli
Edoardo Agnelli names two Agnelli family figures: the elder (1892–1935), son of Fiat's founder and Juventus president during the Quinquennio, and the younger (1954–2000), Gianni Agnelli's son who lived outside the family business.
Educational psychology
Educational psychology, also called the psychology of teaching and learning, applies psychological principles to teaching, training, and learning in schools, workplaces, and informal settings; APA Division 15, distinct from school psychology (Division 16), with roots in James and Thorndike.
Edward Baker Lincoln
Edward Baker Lincoln (1846-1850), called Eddie, was Abraham and Mary Lincoln's second son, born and died in their Springfield home after a 52-day illness, probably tuberculosis, at age three years ten months.