Curated category
Interpersonal relationships
- Sexual intercourseIn 1892, painter Édouard-Henri Avril captured a scene of penile-vaginal penetration titled The Missionary Position. This artwork reflects how the term coitus…
- Sexual orientationIn 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. This decision marked a turning point in how society…
- RomanceIn 1992, a cross-cultural study by William Jankowiak and Edward Fischer examined 166 cultures to determine if romantic love existed universally.
- HeterosexualityThe word heterosexual emerged from a specific moment in 1869 when Karl Maria Kertbeny coined the term alongside its counterpart homosexual.
- Trust (social science)Trust is the belief that another person will do what is expected and is built through repeated consistency. It brings with it a willingness for one party to…
- Courtly loveThe ducal courts of Aquitaine and Provence began to cultivate a new kind of love around the year 1099. Eleanor of Aquitaine moved from her home in southern…
- I and ThouMartin Buber published Ich und Du in 1923. The German title uses the informal pronoun Du, which lacks the poetic weight of the English word Thou.
- SycophancyIn the fifth century BC, a private citizen in Athens could bring a legal case against another without any police force to intervene.
- Stockholm syndromeOn the 23rd of August 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson entered Kreditbanken in Stockholm with a loaded gun. He held four employees hostage inside one of the bank's…