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Emotional dysregulation
Emotional dysregulation, or emotion dysregulation, is difficulty managing emotions and reactions, appearing across ADHD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, ASD, and DMDD; treated with CBT, DBT, ACT, and medication.
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EI), coined by Salovey and Mayer in 1990 and popularized by Goleman's 1995 book, covers perceiving, understanding, using, and regulating emotions; measured via ability, trait, and mixed models with modest predictive validity.
Emotional labor
Emotional labor, coined by Arlie Hochschild in The Managed Heart (1983), is emotion management performed for a wage under organizational display rules, via surface or deep acting, with documented costs to worker well-being and gains to performance.
Emotional self-regulation
Emotional self-regulation: influencing which emotions arise and how they are experienced and expressed, per James Gross's process model. Covers reappraisal, suppression, rumination, cultural moderation, and meta-analytic links to psychopathology.
Employee engagement
Employee engagement, also called work engagement, is the psychological investment employees show in their work. Defined by Kahn (1990) and Schaufeli's vigor-dedication-absorption model, measured by UWES and Gallup Q12; global engagement fell to 20% in 2025.
Employment of autistic people
Employment of autistic people, also called autism and employment, covers how autistic adults participate in paid work; UK employment rates are far below those of other groups.
Empowerment
Empowerment: the process by which people gain greater control over decisions affecting their lives; community empowerment is its collective form. Covers resources and agency, empowerment evaluation (1993), WHO social participation, and the AI channel-capacity sense.
Empowerment scale
The Empowerment Scale, also called the Making Decisions Questionnaire, is a 28-item self-report questionnaire measuring psychological empowerment, including self-esteem and perceived control, in mental health service users.
Empty nest syndrome
Empty nest syndrome (ENS) is the sadness, loneliness, and loss some parents feel when children leave home; not a clinical diagnosis. Research shows mixed outcomes, gender and cultural variation, and role loss versus role strain relief models.
End SARS
#EndSARS is Nigeria's decentralized youth-led movement against police brutality, launched on social media in 2017 and peaking in October 2020 protests that forced the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), followed by the Lekki toll gate shooting.
Endogamy
Endogamy (in-marriage) is the rule or custom of marrying within a defined group such as a caste, religion, ethnicity, or class; its converse is exogamy. It maintains group boundaries, resources, and solidarity, and shapes genetic variation.
Endowment effect
Endowment effect: owners value goods more than non-owners; WTA exceeds WTP, often by more than 2x. Named by Thaler (1980), shown in Kahneman-Knetsch-Thaler mug experiments; explained by loss aversion and alternatives.
Enfield poltergeist
Enfield poltergeist: reported 1977-79 disturbances at 284 Green Street, London, investigated by SPR's Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair; famous male 'Bill' voice from Janet Hodgson, admitted trickery, disputed evidence.
Engagement
Engagement, historically called betrothal, is the period between the promise to marry and marriage, once a binding legal contract and today a social commitment marked by proposals, engagement rings, and studied effects on later marital stability.
Engineer's Day
Engineer's Day covers national observances such as India's 15 September Sir M. Visvesvaraya day and the UNESCO-proclaimed World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development on 4 March, celebrated since 2020.
English Americans
English Americans: Americans of English ancestry, the largest detailed ancestry group among White respondents in the 2020 Census (46.6 million), descendants of the colonial founding population and later British immigration waves.
English people
English people: the nation and ethnic group of England, United Kingdom. Formed from post-Roman Germanic migration (name from the Angli), unified kingdom since 927; 74.4% of England and Wales identified as White British in Census 2021, with dual English/British identities common.
Enjo kōsai (援助交際)
Enjo kōsai (援助交際, enkō 援交) is Japanese compensated dating, exchanging money or gifts for dates or sexual services; a 1990s social panic involving schoolgirls, later shifting to papakatsu and digital platforms.
Enneagram of Personality
Enneagram of Personality: a nine-type personality typology arranged on a nine-pointed symbol, developed by Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo from Gurdjieff's figure; empirical support, per the 2021 Hook review of 104 samples, is mixed.
Environmental determinism
Environmental determinism: doctrine that climate, terrain, and resources determine human culture and societal development; advanced by Ratzel, Semple, and Huntington, discredited by the 1960s, replaced by possibilism and probabilism, and persisting weakly in climate-migration research.
Environmental issues in India
Environmental issues in India: air pollution (1.7 million deaths in 2022 per The Lancet), water stress and pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss in the Western Ghats, Himalayan degradation, and extreme weather; governed by MoEFCC, CPCB, SPCBs, and EIA rules.
Environmental issues in the Niger Delta
The environmental issues in the Niger Delta arise from decades of petroleum extraction causing oil spills and gas flaring that contaminate soil, water, and air, harming livelihoods.
Environmental justice
Environmental justice: fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental law and policy. Born in the 1982 Warren County, NC PCB protests; codified in US Executive Order 12898 (1994); now a global research and policy field.
Environmental movement
The environmental movement, also called the ecology movement, is a network of individuals, groups, and organizations seeking to protect the natural environment through policy and behavior change.
Environmental psychology
Environmental psychology studies the mutual relationship between people and their physical environments, from stressors and design to pro-environmental behavior and climate change; field dates to the late 1950s, with eight topic clusters identified in 2004–2024 bibliometrics.
Environmental racism
Environmental racism: disproportionate exposure of racialized communities to pollution and hazards via siting, housing, and enforcement disparities. Key cases: Cancer Alley, Warren County, Aamjiwnaang; landmark 1987 UCC report; EO 12898.
Envy
Envy is the painful emotion felt at another's good fortune, distinct from jealousy, occurring in benign and malicious forms, studied in social comparison, social media, workplace, and political philosophy contexts.
Ephebophilia
Ephebophilia: adult sexual attraction to postpubescent adolescents, typically ages 15-19; a chronophilia category between hebephilia and teleiophilia, not a DSM-5 or ICD-11 diagnosis.
Episodic simulation
Episodic simulation is a cognitive psychology method in which participants imagine specific personal future events so researchers can measure how simulation affects memory, decision making, and emotion.
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), drafted by Alice Paul and introduced in Congress in 1923, is a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment barring sex-based denial of equality of rights; passed by Congress in 1972, it reached only 35 ratifications by its 1982 deadline, and its status remains disputed.