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Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), English founder of cultural anthropology, author of Primitive Culture (1871) with its classic definition of culture, first Oxford Professor of Anthropology, theorist of survivals and animism.
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono (1933-2021), Maltese physician and author, coined "lateral thinking" and created the Six Thinking Hats parallel-thinking method; wrote over 60 books including The Use of Lateral Thinking (1967).
Edwin Newman
Edwin Newman (1919–2010), American NBC News correspondent 1952–1984, anchor and Meet the Press moderator, announced Kennedy's death on radio, and author of the language best sellers Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue.
Effective accelerationism
Effective accelerationism, abbreviated e/acc, is a techno-optimist movement begun on X in 2022 that argues powerful technology, especially AGI, should be advanced quickly rather than held back.
Effects of divorce
Effects of divorce cover consequences of marital dissolution for adults and children. US research links parental divorce to lower adult earnings, higher incarceration, teen births, and mortality, mediated by income loss, neighborhood change, and reduced parent proximity.
Effects of domestic violence on children
Children's exposure to domestic violence, also called witnessing domestic violence, is when children see, hear, or are otherwise involved in home violence between adults, now recognized as a form of child abuse with psychological, behavioral, health, and intergenerational effects.
Effects of pornography on young people
Effects of pornography on young people: research on childhood and adolescent exposure to sexually explicit material, covering prevalence, age of first exposure, associations with sexual behavior, attitudes, and wellbeing, and why causal conclusions remain limited.
Effeminacy
Effeminacy: feminine appearance, mannerisms, or behavior in men or boys; from Latin effeminare. Known via Greek malakos and kinaidos, Victorian sexology, and modern femmephobia research; distinct from sexual orientation and gender identity.
EFILism
EFILism is a negative utilitarian, antinatalist philosophy treating all sentient life as a harm, created by the YouTuber Gary Mosher, known as Inmendham, in 2011.
Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928) was a British teacher and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Ego depletion
Ego depletion is the hypothesis that self-control draws on a limited energy resource, so exertion impairs later self-control. Introduced by Roy Baumeister and colleagues in 1998, it became a major social psychology model whose effect size and replicability are now heavily contested.
Egocentrism
Egocentrism, in Piagetian developmental psychology, is a failure to differentiate one's own perspective from others'. Elkind's adolescent egocentrism comprises the imaginary audience and personal fable; empirical support is inconsistent.
Egotism
Egotism: inflated self-importance with excessive self-reference, related to but distinct from egoism, narcissism, and egocentrism; coined 1714 by Joseph Addison; central to the psychological egoism-altruism debate and studied as implicit egotism.
Egyptians
Egyptians (المصريون), the people of Egypt, defined by Nile Valley residence, pharaonic heritage, Coptic Christian and Arab-Islamic layers, and constitutional national identity; distinct from Arabians and Nubians by ancestry, language history, and shared civilizational memory.
EHarmony
eHarmony (eharmony) is an American online dating service founded in 2000 by psychologist Neil Clark Warren in Pasadena, California. Known for its Compatibility Quiz and patented 29 Dimensions matching model, it targets serious, marriage-minded daters and is owned by ParshipMeet Group.
Eidetic memory
Eidetic memory, or eidetic imagery, is a short-lived vivid visual recall found mainly in about 8% of children aged 6-12, absent in adults, distinct from undocumented photographic memory and from hyperthymesia.
Eight Banners (八旗)
Eight Banners (八旗): hereditary Manchu military-social organization founded by Nurhaci (1601–1615), later expanded with Mongol and Han banners; core Qing elite force, declined by 1800, abolished after the 1911 revolution.
Eilif Philipsen
Eilif Philipsen (1682-1785), Norwegian farmer from Kinsarvik near Bergen, long recognized as the earliest-born verified centenarian; documented by baptism, 1701 census, marriage, and death records, aged 102 years 334 days at death.
Einstein family
Einstein family: German-Jewish family of Albert Einstein from Kappel, Buchau, and Cannstatt, settled in Ulm from 1864; parents Hermann and Pauline, sister Maja, wives Mileva Marić and Elsa Einstein, children Lieserl, Hans Albert, Eduard, Nazi-era losses, Princeton household.
Elaboration likelihood model
Elaboration likelihood model (ELM), Petty and Cacioppo's dual-process persuasion theory: central route (effortful argument scrutiny) versus peripheral route (cues), determined by motivation and ability to elaborate.
Eleanor Clay Ford
Eleanor Clay Ford (1896–1976), born Eleanor Lowthian Clay, American philanthropist and arts patron, wife of Edsel Ford, niece of J.L. Hudson; DIA benefactor, first woman on Ford's board, Ford House founder.
Eleanor Elkins Widener
Eleanor Elkins Widener (1861–1937), later Widener Rice, Philadelphia heiress and Titanic survivor who funded Harvard's Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, opened 1915, in memory of her son Harry, and later married explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice.
Electra complex
Electra complex: the female counterpart of Freud's Oedipus complex, coined by Carl Jung in 1913, describing a girl's alleged attachment to her father and rivalry with her mother; Freud rejected the term, and modern psychology regards it as unsupported.
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), formally idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to EMF (IEI-EMF), is a self-reported condition attributing non-specific symptoms to electromagnetic fields; blinded provocation studies find no causal link.
Electronic harassment
Electronic harassment is the unverified belief of being remotely attacked or controlled via directed energy weapons or voice-to-skull technology, held by self-identified targeted individuals within the gangstalking belief system, generally assessed clinically as persecutory delusion.
Elena Cuza
Elena Cuza, known as Elena Doamna, was a Romanian noblewoman, princess consort of the United Principalities, and philanthropist who founded a home for poor girls in 1862.
Elevated plus maze
The elevated plus maze is a widely used rodent test of anxiety-like behavior, in which avoidance of an elevated maze's open arms measures anxiety and drug effects.
Elián González
Elián González, the Cuban boy rescued at sea in November 1999 after his mother drowned, became the center of a U.S.-Cuba custody battle until his 2000 return; he is now a Cuban National Assembly deputy from Cárdenas.
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015), American missionary, author of Through Gates of Splendor and Passion and Purity, widow of martyred missionary Jim Elliot, who lived among the Waorani who killed him and hosted Gateway to Joy radio.
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born 1941), Little Rock Nine member who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; her solo walk through a mob on September 4, 1957, photographed by Will Counts, became an iconic civil rights image.