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Murder of Kitty Genovese. In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York, United States. [ 2][ 3][ 4] Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article erroneously claiming ...
Robert J. Sternberg (born December 8, 1949) [ 1] is an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is a Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. [ 2] Sternberg has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University, under advisor Gordon Bower.
The Heinz dilemma is a frequently used example in many ethics and morality classes. One well-known version of the dilemma, used in Lawrence Kohlberg 's stages of moral development, is stated as follows: [ 1] A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors said would save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same ...
Somnophilia. Somnophilia (from Latin somnus "sleep" and Greek φιλία, -philia "friendship") is a paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The Dictionary of Psychology categorized somnophilia within the classification of predatory paraphilias. [ 4]
Sexual jealousy. Two are Company, Three Are None, 1872, a wood engraving by Winslow Homer. Sexual jealousy is a special form of jealousy in sexual relationships, based on suspected or imminent sexual infidelity. The concept is studied in the field of evolutionary psychology .
Milgram experiment. The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the teacher (T) believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an actor and confederate. The subject is led to believe that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual electric shocks, though in ...
Making oneself bleed, a type of hematolagnia. [ 22] The image of oneself in the form of an infant. [ 19] The image of oneself in the form of a child. [ 23] The image of oneself in the form of a plush. [ 23] The image of oneself in the form of a vampire. [ 24][ 25][ 26] Involves ingesting or seeing one's own blood.
Exhibitionism. Naked exhibitionist woman on a Budapest street in 2007. Exhibitionism is the act of exposing in a public or semi-public context one's intimate parts – for example, the breasts, genitals or buttocks. As used in psychology and psychiatry, it is substantially different. It refers to an uncontrollable urge to exhibit one's genitals ...