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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
301 results for "social anxiety disorder" — page 1 of 16
T_2_09 — Fear, Anxiety, and Phobias
Fear and anxiety are functionally distinct emotion systems: fear is a present-oriented defensive response to immediate threats (fight-flight-freeze), while anxiety is a future-oriented state of apprehension about potenti
T_2_03 — Attachment Theory — Bowlby, Ainsworth & Social Bonds
Attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby (1958, 1969) and empirically validated by Mary Ainsworth (1978), proposes that humans are biologically predisposed to form close emotional bonds with caregivers — and that the
T_2_20 — Personality Disorders: Cluster Analysis and Dimensional Models
Personality disorders (PDs) — enduring patterns of inner experience and behavior that deviate markedly from cultural expectations, are pervasive and inflexible, and cause significant functional impairment — affect approx
T_4_02 — Forensic Psychology and the Criminal Mind
Forensic psychology applies psychological science to legal and criminal justice systems — encompassing criminal behavior, courtroom processes, investigative methods, risk assessment, and rehabilitation.
T_4_21 — Mass Formation Psychology
Mass formation describes a psychological phenomenon in which large populations become fixated on a single narrative, willing to sacrifice individual freedom and rational judgment for the perceived security of collective
T_2_01 — Psychology of Grief, Loss, and Death Awareness
The psychology of grief, loss, and death awareness spans clinical bereavement research, existential psychology, and experimental social cognition. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five-stage model (1969), though culturally ubiqui
T_2_22 — Psychopathy Neuroscience
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, bold and disinhibited traits, and often superficial charm — affecting an estimated 1% of the general po
T_2_17 — Depression & Mood Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) affects an estimated 280 million people worldwide (WHO, 2023) and is the leading cause of disability globally. The neurobiological understanding of depression has undergone a paradigm shif
T_5_06 — Digital Psychology and Screen Time
Digital psychology examines how digital technologies — smartphones, social media, video games, internet use — affect cognition, emotion, social behavior, and mental health. The field has become intensely debated since th
U_1_07 — Music and Social Movements
Music and social movements have been inseparable throughout history — music serves as a vehicle for collective identity, emotional mobilization, coded communication, and cultural memory in struggles for justice, labor ri
C_1_14 — Dumézil's Trifunctional Hypothesis: Indo-European Social Structure in Myth
Georges Dumézil (1898–1986) was a French comparative mythologist and philologist who proposed that the mythologies, religions, and social institutions of Indo-European-speaking peoples share a common tripartite ideologic
Z_3_14 — Behavioral Genetics and the Genetics of Aggression
Behavioral genetics investigates the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to variation in behavior — including aggression, impulsivity, risk-taking, anxiety, sociability, and cognitive traits. Twin
K_4_13 — Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition
Mirror neurons are a class of neurons, first discovered in the early 1990s in the premotor cortex (area F5) of macaque monkeys by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, and colleagues at the University of Parma, that fire
ZC_5_10 — Sociology of Disaster: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Social Amplification of Risk
The sociology of disaster studies the social dimensions of catastrophic events — earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, pandemics, industrial accidents, nuclear meltdowns, wildfires, and increasingly, climate-driven extreme ev
ZC_5_04 — Social Movements: Collective Action, Mobilization, and Protest
Social movements are sustained, organized collective efforts by non-institutional actors to promote or resist social, political, economic, or cultural change through unconventional means — including protest, civil disobe
ZC_5_07 — Sociology of Knowledge: Social Construction, Paradigms, and Epistemic Communities
The sociology of knowledge investigates how social conditions — class position, institutional setting, cultural context, historical period, and power relations — shape the production, content, validation, and distributio
ZC_5_20 — Post-Truth & Misinformation
"Post-truth" — named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2016 and defined as "relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal be
ZC_5_02 — Sociology of Technology: Social Shaping, Actor-Networks, and Technological Determinism
The sociology of technology (a core subfield of Science and Technology Studies — STS) investigates how social, economic, political, and cultural factors shape the development, design, adoption, and consequences of techno
ZC_5_16 — Computational Social Science: Big Data, Agent-Based Models, and Digital Behavioral Analysis
Computational social science (CSS) is the interdisciplinary field that applies computational methods — machine learning, natural language processing, network analysis, agent-based modeling, and large-scale data mining —
ZC_1_01 — Social Psychology — Conformity, Obedience, and Group Dynamics
Social psychology examines how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. Landmark experiments by Milgram (obedience to authority), Asch (conformity to majority opinion), and Zimbardo (situational power of r
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