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False consensus effect
The false consensus effect is a cognitive bias in which people overestimate how many others share their opinions and behaviors, named by Ross, Greene, and House (1977), confirmed by meta-analysis, and studied in politics, social media, and AI.
False memory
False memory: remembering events that never happened or happened differently. Studied via the DRM word-list paradigm (Deese 1959; Roediger & McDermott 1995), misinformation and implantation paradigms; gist-based, persistent, and indistinguishable from true memory by confidence or brain measures.
False memory syndrome
False memory syndrome (FMS) is a term coined in 1992 by the False Memory Syndrome Foundation for strongly believed false trauma memories; it is not an accepted diagnosis and was critically characterized as pseudoscientific.
False titles of nobility
False titles of nobility, sometimes called royal title scams, are invented or assumed titles of rank that no country's authorities recognize, often sold with tiny souvenir plots of Scottish land.
Family
Family: a kinship-based social group organizing childrearing, inheritance, and care. Covers nuclear, extended, single-parent, and blended structures, historical change, US and OECD statistics, and children's outcomes research.
Family (disambiguation)
Family (disambiguation): senses of the word family across everyday English, UN statistical and policy definitions, kinship, biology, linguistics, mathematics, organized crime, family assessment, and the UK Family Test.
Family Characteristics
Family characteristics denote the size and composition of a family (MeSH D005191), covering family size, structure, and marital status, measured via censuses and surveys such as the ACS, DHS, and UN household databases.
Family Environment Scale
The Family Environment Scale (FES) is a self-report questionnaire measuring family social climate through ten subscales such as Cohesion, Conflict, and Control, published in 1974.
Family estrangement
Family estrangement: cutting off or drastically reducing contact with a close relative, often called going no contact. Prevalence estimates range from 6% (mothers) to 26% (fathers) of young adults; common causes are abuse, value clashes, and divorce.
Family of Mahatma Gandhi
Family of Mahatma Gandhi: descendants of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Kasturba through sons Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, and Devdas; over 100 living descendants, mostly outside politics, unrelated to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
Family of Pope Leo XIV
Family of Pope Leo XIV: the Chicago Prevost family of Robert Francis Prevost, first American pope elected 8 May 2025. Parents Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Agnes Martinez, brothers Louis Martin and John Joseph, maternal roots in New Orleans and Haiti.
Family tree
A family tree, or genealogical tree, is a diagram showing relationships among family members across generations, also called a kinship diagram in anthropology and a pedigree in medicine.
Family tree of Muhammad
Family tree of Muhammad: his Banu Hashim lineage of Quraysh traced to Adnan (agreed) and to Isma'il (disputed), his relatives, wives, children, and the sayyid/sharif descendants through Fatimah.
Family values
Family values: beliefs about marriage, children, intergenerational duty, and gender roles, also a political idiom. Surveys in the US, China, and 114 countries consistently rank family the top personal value.
Famine in Sudan (2024–present)
Famine in Sudan (2024–present): IPC-confirmed famine in Darfur and Kordofan during the SAF–RSF war that began April 2023, first confirmed in Zamzam camp, later El Fasher, Kadugli, and the Western Nuba Mountains, with millions in Phase 3+ hunger.
Famous for being famous
Famous for being famous: pejorative phrase for celebrity without identifiable accomplishment, traced to Charles Godfrey Leland (1896) and Daniel Boorstin's 1962 'well-known for his well-knownness,' now applied to reality-TV and social-media celebrities.
Fantasy (psychology)
Fantasy in psychology: internally generated imagery and narrative while awake, from daydreams to psychoanalytic phantasy; studied via fantasy proneness, Singer's daydreaming types, and maladaptive daydreaming.
Fante people
The Fante people, also spelled Fanti, are an Akan people of southern Ghana's coast between Accra and Sekondi-Takoradi, known as traders and for the 1868 Fante Confederacy.
Farmers' suicides in India
Farmers' suicides in India: deaths by suicide of farmers and agricultural labourers since the mid-1990s, concentrated in cotton states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka; about 300,000 recorded 1995–2012, driven by debt, crop failure, and drought.
Fat acceptance movement
Fat acceptance movement: social movement against anti-fat stigma and discrimination, originating with the 1967 Central Park fat-in and NAAFA's 1969 founding by Bill Fabrey; includes the Fat Underground, Fat Liberation Manifesto (1973), and Health at Every Size.
Fat fetishism
Fat fetishism, or fat admiration (adipophilia), is sexual attraction to fat or obese bodies; its subculture feederism eroticizes feeding and weight gain, with feeders and feedees, and is not itself a DSM-5 paraphilic disorder.
Father absence
Father absence: a child living apart from the biological father due to divorce, nonmarital birth, death, or migration. Research links it to worse education, mental health, and behavior, with smaller effects in rigorous causal designs.
Father complex
Father complex, also called daddy issues: a psychoanalytic and Jungian term for unconscious feeling-toned ideas clustering around the father. Freud used it 1910–1913 for oedipal guilt and castration anxiety; Jung made it an archetypal concept; the phrase has largely vanished from contemporary psychoanalysis.
Fathia Nuri Khalid (فتحية نوري خالد)
Fathia Nuri Khalid (فتحية نوري خالد; also Fatiha al-Nuri) was a Libyan schoolteacher, first wife of Muammar Gaddafi (married 1969, divorced 1970), daughter of Brigadier Nuri Khalid, and mother of his eldest son Muhammad.
Fear conditioning
Fear conditioning is a behavioral paradigm in which a neutral stimulus paired with an aversive one, such as a foot shock, comes to elicit defensive fear responses.
Fear of missing out
Fear of missing out (FoMO/FOMO) is the apprehension that others are having rewarding experiences without you, defined by Przybylski et al. 2013 via self-determination theory, linked to heavy social media use, and countered by JOMO.
Fear Questionnaire
The Fear Questionnaire is a brief self-report scale introduced by Isaac Marks and A.M. Mathews in 1979, measuring phobic fear and avoidance across agoraphobia, social phobia, and blood-injury phobia.
Fear-potentiated startle
Fear-potentiated startle is the increase in the startle reflex when a cue paired with threat is present, first shown in rats in 1951 and used to test antianxiety drugs.
Federal Marriage Amendment
The Federal Marriage Amendment was a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment, H.J. Res. 56 introduced by Marilyn Musgrave in 2003, defining marriage as only a man-woman union; debated in Congress in 2004, it never passed, and Obergefell v. Hodges later made it moot.
Federation of Expellees
Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV), Federation of Expellees: Bonn-based German umbrella association of expellee Landsmannschaften and Landesverbände, founded 1957/1958; Charter of German Expellees, Lastenausgleich advocacy, declining ageing membership.