Curated playlist
Interpersonal relationships
- Sexual intercourseUntil 2012, the FBI counted rape as a crime only men could commit against women. That year it widened its definition.
- Sexual orientationJohn Money replaced the phrase sexual preference with sexual orientation.
- RomanceObstacles seem to make romantic passion burn hotter. Researchers call it the Romeo and Juliet effect.
- HeterosexualityA major American dictionary once called heterosexuality a morbid passion. Eleven years later it reversed itself.
- Trust (social science)Building trust takes repeated good behavior, but one act can destroy it. Once broken, it is very hard to regain.
- BetrayalYou cannot be betrayed by a stranger. Betrayal needs closeness, so the wound comes from someone trusted.
- Courtly loveTroubadours called their ladies "my lord" to flatter them and hide who they meant. The word was midons.
- Interpersonal relationshipA 1958 study of rhesus monkeys overturned the idea that infant love is only about food.
- I and ThouMartin Luther King Jr. used the book I and Thou to describe segregation.
- SycophancyIn ancient Athens, a sycophant was a paid troublemaker who brought false charges. Today it means a flatterer.
- Stockholm syndromeContested psychological condition