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Elizabeth Eden
Elizabeth (Liz) Eden, born Ernest Aron (1946-1987), American transgender woman whose partner John Wojtowicz's 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery inspired Dog Day Afternoon; she told her own story in a 1977 CLUB memoir.
Elizabeth Francis
Elizabeth Francis (1909–2024) was an American supercentenarian from Louisiana and Houston, Texas; validated by LongeviQuest, she was the oldest living American from February 2024 until her death at 115.
Elizabeth Harris Aitken
Elizabeth Harris Aitken, born Elizabeth Rees-Williams (Cardiff, 1936 – 2022), Welsh socialite, daughter of the first Baron Ogmore; married Richard Harris, Sir Rex Harrison, Peter Aitken and Jonathan Aitken; wrote Love, Honour and Dismay.
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893–1993), born Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, was an American attorney and psychologist, BU Law 1918, who co-authored systolic blood pressure lie-detection research with her husband William Moulton Marston and suggested Wonder Woman be a woman.
Elizabeth Kloepfer
Elizabeth Kloepfer (pseudonym Elizabeth Kendall), Ted Bundy's girlfriend 1969–1975, wrote the 1981 memoir The Phantom Prince and reported her suspicions of him to Seattle police.
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958), Tlingit name Kaaxgal.aat, was a Tlingit civil rights leader whose 1945 testimony helped pass Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act, the first broad anti-discrimination law in the United States.
Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker (1903–1986), American civil rights organizer; NAACP director of branches, SCLC executive secretary, and organizer of the April 1960 Shaw University conference that founded SNCC, advocating group-centered, grassroots leadership.
Elliot Rodger
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014), London-born son of director Peter Rodger, killed six in the 2014 Isla Vista attack after two years of planning; his manifesto and incel canonization as 'The Supreme Gentleman' shaped misogynistic-extremism research.
Elopement
Elopement: running away secretly to marry, historically without parental consent; now also a small intentional wedding with few or no guests, plus an unrelated care-facility departure sense.
Elsa Einstein
Elsa Einstein (Elsa Löwenthal, 1876–1936), Albert Einstein's first cousin and second wife, married him in 1919, managed his affairs and household, and moved with him to Princeton in 1933.
Embarrassment
Embarrassment is a self-conscious emotion of awkwardness at threatened self-exposure, distinct from shame and guilt, marked by a distinct display and blush, ventrolateral prefrontal and amygdala activity, and appeasement and norm-protective social functions.
Embodied cognition
Embodied cognition: a cognitive-science research program holding that cognition depends causally or constitutively on the body beyond the brain; spans Lakoff-Johnson, enactivism, robotics, education, and replication-crisis debates.
Emic and etic
Emic and etic: complementary analytic standpoints coined by linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954, popularized in anthropology by Marvin Harris; emic means insider/member perspective, etic means outsider/observer perspective.
Emigration
Emigration is the act of leaving one's country of usual residence to settle in another, the mirror of immigration. Covers UN and Eurostat definitions, measurement problems, push-pull and network drivers, and effects on sending countries including remittances and brain drain.
Emigration from the United States
Emigration from the United States, also called American emigration, is the departure of people from the US to live in other countries, with one of the world's lowest emigration rates at 0.8%.
Émigré
Émigré: a person who leaves their country for political causes; from French émigré (1792, royalists fleeing the French Revolution), distinct from refugee, migrant, and expatriate; central to the Russian post-1917 emigration.
Emily Post
Emily Post, American etiquette authority (born 1872 or 1873, Baltimore; died 1960), author of Etiquette (1922), which sold 1.5 million copies in her lifetime; her family's Emily Post Institute still publishes the Centennial Edition.
Emiratis
Emiratis are the citizens of the United Arab Emirates, about 11% of the population, defined by patrilineal citizenship, Arab-Islamic official identity, and diverse Indian Ocean family origins.
Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland
Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland (born Emma Watkins), Welsh farmer's daughter who married the 11th Duke in 1992; runs Belvoir Castle's commercial activities, the Engine Yard retail development, and the Duchess podcast.
Emma Morano
Emma Martina Luigia Morano (1899–2017), Italian supercentenarian of Verbania, died at 117 years 137 days as the last verified person born in the 19th century and Guinness-confirmed oldest living person from May 2016; also the oldest Italian ever verified.
Emma Vigeland
Emma Vigeland (born 1994) is an American progressive commentator, co-host of The Majority Report with Sam Seder and host of the Emmajority Report, formerly a field reporter and producer at The Young Turks.
Emmanouil Xanthos
Emmanouil Xanthos (Εμμανουήλ Ξάνθος) was a Greek merchant from Patmos, one of the three founders of the Filiki Eteria secret society that prepared the 1821 Greek Revolution.
Emos vs. Punks
Emos vs. punks: the 2008 Mexico City conflict in which punks, metalheads, and other urban tribes attacked emo youths, culminating in the 16 March 2008 Glorieta de Insurgentes clash, driven by accusations of style copying, homophobia, and gender norms.
Emotion
Emotion: a complex reaction pattern with experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements directed at personally significant events. Covers James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer theories, basic emotion, appraisal, and constructionist traditions, and emotion regulation.
Emotion classification
Emotion classification: organizing emotional states via discrete models (Ekman's six basic emotions) or dimensional models (valence, arousal, dominance; Russell's circumplex), used in psychology and affective computing.
Emotion recognition task
An emotion recognition task is a behavioral test measuring how well a person identifies emotions in faces, voices, or scenes, used in research and clinical groups.
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report questionnaire measuring habitual use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, introduced by James J. Gross and Oliver P. John in 2003.
Emotional affair
Emotional affair, also called emotional infidelity: a non-sexual extrarelational bond marked by intimacy mirroring a committed relationship, sustained contemplation, and deception or opacity; hallmarks are secrecy and diverted emotional support.
Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail, popularized by Susan Forward's 1997 book, is manipulation of a close person through fear, obligation, and guilt (FOG), using implied threats of punishment or withdrawal to force compliance; studied in relationships, workplaces, and film discourse.
Emotional detachment
Emotional detachment, also called emotional numbing or blunting, is reduced emotional responsiveness. It appears in PTSD and dissociation, as an antidepressant side effect, and in avoidant attachment.