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Frisson
Frisson (French for shiver), also called aesthetic or musical chills, is a pleasurable psychophysiological response to music, films, poetry, and art, marked by spine chills, goosebumps, skin-conductance and heart-rate rises, and reward-circuit brain activity.
Front organization
Front organization: an entity posing as independent while serving a hidden sponsor's agenda; also called front group. Uses the third-party technique and astroturfing; legal in the US but ethically questioned; examples include tobacco and dark money nonprofits.
Frot
Frot is slang for non-penetrative genital-to-genital rubbing, mainly between men; a shortened form of frottage (French frotter, "to rub"). Distinct from frotteurism, the clinical term for nonconsensual rubbing.
Frustration
Frustration, in psychology, is the thwarting of expected goal attainment and the emotional state it produces; central to the frustration-aggression hypothesis of Dollard et al. (1939), revised by Miller (1941) and Berkowitz (1989).
Fu Manchu moustache
Fu Manchu moustache: facial hair with long thin strands drooping from the upper-lip corners past the chin, named after Sax Rohmer's 1912 villain; distinct from the horseshoe, first worn on screen by Warner Oland in 1929.
Fuji Television sexual harassment scandal
Fuji Television sexual harassment scandal (2024–2025): Masahiro Nakai (中居正広) assault allegations, sponsor exodus, executive resignations, third-party report, and Fuji TV's reforms and recovery.
Fula people
Fula people (Fulɓe, Fulani, Peul), a West African pastoralist people from Senegal to Sudan speaking Pulaar/Fulfulde (Niger-Congo Atlantic); founded Sokoto, Hamdullahi, Fuuta Tooro, and Fuuta Jalon Islamic states; population estimates 5–65 million.
Fundamental attribution error
Fundamental attribution error, also called correspondence bias or overattribution bias: the tendency to overattribute others' behavior to disposition and underweight situation. Coined by Lee Ross (1977); demonstrated by Jones and Harris (1967).
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, is a Mormon fundamentalist denomination that practices plural marriage and split from the mainstream LDS Church after it renounced polygamy in 1890.
Funeral director
Funeral director, also called mortician or undertaker, is a licensed professional who arranges funerals, handles body care and legal paperwork, and coordinates burial or cremation; US licensing requires education, internship, and exams, while UK regulation remains largely voluntary outside Scotland.
Fur people
The Fur are an ethnic group of the Marra Mountains in Darfur, Sudan, founders of the Keira Sultanate of Dar Fur (c. 1640–1916) and speakers of the Fur language, a Nilo-Saharan tongue; they were systematically targeted in the 2003 Darfur conflict and the RSF war since 2023.
Future Shock
Future Shock, Alvin Toffler's 1970 Random House bestseller (also called Futureshock), argues that accelerating change causes psychological distress and information overload; sold about 7 million copies in over 50 countries.
Futurist
Futurist: practitioner of futures studies or strategic foresight who studies possible, probable, and preferable futures using methods like horizon scanning, Delphi, and scenarios, rather than predicting a single future; field traces to post-WWII RAND and de Jouvenel.
G factor (psychometrics)
The g factor (general intelligence) is Spearman's 1904 psychometric construct summarizing positive correlations among mental test scores, extracted by factor analysis, contrasted with specific factors s and debated as artifact or reality.
Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez
Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez is the younger brother of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). In fall 2016 he nominated his sister to Brand New Congress, triggering her 2018 primary win over Joe Crowley.
Gaels
Gaels (Gaeil, Gàidheil) are the Goidelic-speaking ethnolinguistic group of Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the Isle of Man; key facts include the Gall-Ghaidheil of the 850s annals, the medieval Kingdom of the Isles, the 18th-century "Celtic" label, and 130,161 people with Gaelic skills in Scotland's 2022 census.
Gagauz people
Gagauz (Gagauzlar): Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christian people of southern Moldova (Gagauzia), Ukraine's Budjak, Bulgaria, and Greece; Oghuz-branch language, debated Seljuk/Oghuz origins, autonomy since 1994.
Gaijin (外人)
Gaijin (外人), Japanese for outsider or foreigner, is the casual contraction of gaikokujin (外国人). Unlike the neutral administrative full form, gaijin marks social placement, is often used for white residents, and is debated as potentially derogatory.
Games People Play (book)
Games People Play (1964, Grove Press) by psychiatrist Eric Berne introduced transactional analysis and its catalog of covert social "games" to a mass audience, selling over 5 million copies and coining terms like Parent, Adult, and Child.
Gandharva marriage (गान्धर्व विवाह)
Gandharva marriage (गान्धर्व विवाह), one of the eight classical Hindu marriage forms, is a union by mutual desire and consent of the couple, without parental arrangement. Traditionally an unapproved form, it was held lawful for Kshatriyas, required saptapadi rites for validity, and its famous example is Shakuntala and Dushyanta.
Gang bang
Gang bang (gangbang) is English slang for group sex with one person and several partners, or for street-gang activity; attested 1953 from gang + bang, earlier gang-shag (1927), with gang-fight and gang-rape senses.
Gang stalking
Gang stalking (gangstalking) is a persecutory belief system in which targeted individuals believe groups, including government, monitor and harass them; clinicians view it as delusional.
Gangneung Kim clan
The Gangneung Kim clan (강릉 김씨) is a Korean clan whose ancestral seat is Gangneung, traced to Kim Ju-won of the Silla royal line of King Muyeol.
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली)
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली), born Ganga Harjeevandas Kathiawadi (1907–1977), was a Mumbai brothel madam and sex workers' rights figure in Kamathipura, later depicted in Bhansali's 2022 film Gangubai Kathiawadi.
Ganzfeld effect
Ganzfeld effect (German 'whole field'): perceptual phenomenon from viewing a homogeneous, unstructured visual field, introduced by Metzger in 1930; causes fading of color, loss of depth perception, and pseudo-hallucinations. Distinct from the ganzfeld telepathy experiments built on it.
Ganzfeld experiment
Ganzfeld experiment: parapsychological ESP test using homogeneous sensory deprivation (ping-pong ball halves, red light, white noise), pioneered by Honorton 1974; receiver picks 1 of 4 targets, 25% chance; replication disputed since the 1986 Hyman-Honorton communiqué.
Garden hermit
Garden hermit, or ornamental hermit: a person hired to live in a rustic hermitage on an 18th-century estate as a living garden ornament, chiefly in Georgian Britain, with contracts, automata stand-ins, and decline by the 1830s.
Gareth Barlow
Gareth Barlow is a British broadcaster presenting Sky News breakfast (6am–7am, 10am–1pm), formerly a BBC presenter 2017–2023 and first UK broadcaster to announce Pope Francis's death; previously a North Yorkshire farmer.
Garhwali people
The Garhwali people, also known as Garhwalis, inhabit Garhwal in northwestern Uttarakhand, India, speak the Central Pahari Garhwali language, and are known for Hindu hill culture and widespread labor migration.
Garifuna
Garifuna (Garínagu, Black Carib): Afro-Indigenous people of Arawak, Carib, and African descent exiled from St. Vincent in 1797, living on the Caribbean coasts of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua; Arawakan language, UNESCO-recognized music and dance.