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- Face (sociological concept)Class of behaviors and customs
- Face negotiation theoryTheory in social science
- Face spaceTheory of facial recognition
- Face superiority effectProcess of memorising faces
- Face validitySocial science concept
- Facet (psychology)Specific and unique aspect of a broader personality trait
- Facial Action Coding SystemSystem of classifying human facial movements
- Facial feedback hypothesisHypothesis that expression influences emotions
- Facial nerve paralysisFacial nerve paralysis is a common problem that involves the paralysis of any structures i
- Facial width to height ratioAspect of a person's face
- FacilitatorA facilitator is a person who helps a group of people to work together better, understand
- Factitious disorderDisease of mental health where symptoms are deliberately produced, feigned or exaggerated
- Factitious disorder imposed on anotherMental illness in which a caregiver fakes health problems in another person
- Factitious disorder imposed on selfCompulsion towards imitating symptoms of illness to gain attention or care
- Faculty psychologyMetaphysical Idea
- Fading affect biasMemory bias affecting emotional memory
- FaggotHomophobic slur
- Failure to launchConcept related to young emerging adults
- Fair division experimentsScientific tests related to game theory
- Falling (sensation)Sensation
- Falling in loveProcess of developing strong feelings of attachment and love
- False allegation of child sexual abuseAccusation of child molestation when it has not actually occurred
- False awakeningVivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep
- False confessionAdmission of guilt for a crime one did not commit
- False consensus effectAttributional type of cognitive bias
- False memoryPsychological occurrence
- False memory syndromeProposed condition of false or biased recollections
- False Memory Syndrome FoundationDefunct American nonprofit organization
- False-uniqueness effectCognitive bias of wrongly viewing yourself as unique
- Familiarity heuristicTendency to favor familiar things over new things
- Families AnonymousTwelve-step program
- Family ConstellationsForm of pseudotherapy
- Family ProcessAcademic journal
- Family resemblance (anthropology)Physical and psychological similarities shared between close relatives
- Family resilienceAn important part of the heritage of family resilience is the concept of individual psycho
- Family therapyField of psychology centered on families
- Fan loyaltyLoyalty felt and expressed towards object of fanaticism
- FanaticismBehavior involving obsessive enthusiasm
- Fanita EnglishRomanian-American psychoanalyst and psychotherapist (1916–2022)
- Fantasy (psychology)Mental faculty of drawing imagination and desire in the human brain
- Farid DieckMexican writer, speaker, psychologist and internet personality (born 1993)
- Farley NormanProfessor of psychological sciences
- Fart lightingLighting farts on fire
- Fashion psychologyBranch of applied human psychology
- Fast ForWordFast ForWord is a computer-based reading program with limited evidence of effectiveness, c
- Fathali M. MoghaddamIranian-born psychologist
- Father absenceLack of a male parent in raising a child
- Father complexPersonality trait in psychology
- Father tongue hypothesisHypothesis on language affiliation
- Fathers as attachment figuresStudies have found that the father is a child's preferred attachment figure in approximate
- Fatima AkiluNigerian psychologist and a public speaker
- Fatima Zohra KaradjaFatima Zohra Karadja (born 1949) is a Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Soc
- Fayneese MillerAmerican academic administrator
- FearBasic emotion induced by a perceived threat
- Fear appealMotivation and marketing device employing fear
- Fear of beesSpecific phobia towards bees
- Fear of commitmentIrrational fear or avoidance of long-term partnership or marriage
- Fear of crossing streetsType of phobia
- Fear of fishFear of traditional and non traditional fish
- Fear of ghostsPhasmophobia
- Fear of GodFear or a specific sense of respect, awe, and submission to a deity
- Fear of intimacyFear of intimacy is generally a social phobia and anxiety disorder resulting in difficulty
- Fear of mice and ratsSpecific phobia towards mouses and rats
- Fear of needlesPhobia of injections or needles
- Fear of roller coastersPhobia of roller coaster rides
- Fear of the darkCommon fear or phobia among children and, to a varying degree, adults
- Fear of trainsPhobia of trains and railway travel
- Fear-avoidance modelThe fear-avoidance model (or FA model) is a psychiatric model that describes how individua
- FearmongeringDeliberate use of fear-based tactics
- Feature scalingFeature scaling is a method used to normalize the range of independent variables or featur
- Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain SciencesCoalition of behavioral science learned societies
- Feeding disorderChild's abnormal refusal to eat certain foods
- FeelingConscious subjective experience of emotion
- Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyBook by David D. Burns
- Fei XuAmerican Professor of Psychology
- Felicia BrabecAmerican politician and clinical psychologist
- Felicia PrattoAmerican social psychologist
- Felix TretterAustrian psychotherapist and psychiatrist
- Female hysteriaOutdated diagnosis for women
- Female perversionTerm coined by Estela V. Welldon
- Female submissionSexual activities with a female submissive partner
- Feminine psychologyApproach that counters Freud's view
- Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders1994 book
- Feminist psychologyForm of psychology centered on social structures and gender
- Femme fataleStock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman
- FemmephobiaOppression and discrimination towards femininity
- Fergus I. M. CraikScottish researcher and cognitive psychologist
- Fernanda Ferreira (psychologist)Cognitive psychologist
- Festival della ScienzaThe Festival della Scienza is an annual science festival held in Genoa, Italy. It was laun
- Fethi BenslamaFrench-Tunisian psychoanalyst, academic and essayist
- Fictional portrayals of psychopaths and sociopathsFictional portrayals of psychopaths and sociopaths are some of the most notorious in film
- Fidget toyObject used for fidgeting or stimming with the hands
- FidgetingType of involuntary movement
- Fiedler contingency modelBusiness and management theory
- Financial infidelityMoney disorder
- Fiona CaldicottBritish psychiatrist (1941–2021)
- Firefighter arsonPhenomenon of arsonist firefighters
- First impression (psychology)Mental image of a person from a first encounter
- Fitzhugh DodsonAmerican psychologist and writer (1923-1993)
- Five Facet Mindfulness QuestionnairePsychological questionnaire
- Five stages of griefConcept in psychology
- Five-choice serial-reaction time taskThe Five-choice serial-reaction time task (5CSRTT) is a laboratory behavioral task used in
- Flash suppressionPhenomenon of visual perception
- Flashbulb memoryType of vivid, enduring autobiographical memory
- FlayingMethod of execution
- Flexibility (personality)Extent to which a person can cope with changes
- Flicker fusion thresholdConcept in the psychophysics of vision
- Flicker vertigoVertigo caused by strobe light
- FlogstaUrban district in Uppsala, Sweden
- Flooding (psychology)Form of behavior therapy
- Florence BagleyAmerican psychologist
- Florence DenmarkAmerican psychologist (1932–2026)
- Florence DunlopCanadian psychologist and educator
- Florence GoodenoughAmerican psychologist (1886–1959)
- Florence KaslowAmerican psychologist
- Florentino FloroFormer Filipino judge
- Florian Ștefănescu-GoangăRomanian psychologist (1881–1958)
- FlourishingPositive psychological and social functioning
- Flowerpot techniqueAnimal testing technique
- Fluid and crystallized intelligenceFactors of general intelligence
- Focusing (psychotherapy)Psychotherapeutic technique
- Folie à deuxShared psychosis, a psychotic disorder
- Folk devilPerson or group portrayed as outsiders and deviant
- Folle blancheFolle blanche (French pronunciation: ), also known as Picpoule, Gros Plant, and Enrageat b
- FollowershipActions of someone in a subordinate role
- Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei DepositiFondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi (FITD) is an Italian deposit guarantee fund fou
- Food addictionBehavioral addiction characterized by compulsory indulgence over foods
- Food cravingIntense desire to consume specific foods
- Food Cravings QuestionnairesMedical questionnaire
- Food noisePersistent and intrusive thoughts about food
- Food psychologyPsychology of food choice
- Fool (stock character)The fool is a stock character in creative works (literature, film, etc.) and folklore. The
- Foot fetishismSexual fascination with feet
- Foot-in-the-door techniqueCompliance tactic
- Forced compliance theoryForced compliance theory is a paradigm that is closely related to cognitive dissonance the
- Forced confessionConfession obtained from a person under duress
- Foreclosure (psychoanalysis)Concept by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan
- Forensic developmental psychologyForensic developmental psychology is a field of psychology that focuses on "children's act
- Foresight (psychology)Behavior-based backcasting & forecasting factors
- Forest 404BBC sci-fi podcast starring Pearl Mackie
- ForgivenessRenunciation or cessation of resentment, indignation, or anger
- FormicationAbnormal sensation that bugs are crawling on or under the skin
- Foucha v. Louisiana1992 United States Supreme Court case
- Foundation for Biomedical ResearchThe Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) is an American nonprofit organization, 501(c)
- Foundation for Psychocultural ResearchUS nonprofit organization
- Four discoursesConcept in Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Four stages of competencePsychological states when gaining a skill
- Four temperamentsProto-psychological theory
- Fragile masculinityAnxiety due to a feeling of inadequate masculinity
- Frame of reference (marketing)In marketing, "frame of reference" is how a new product, service, or concept is seen by th
- Framing effect (psychology)Bias in which choices are influenced by the options' connotations
- Framingham EightEight women in Massachusetts who received clemency on their prison sentences.
- Frances CulbertsonAmerican child clinical psychologist (1921–2019)
- Frances G. WickesAmerican psychologist and writer of children's fiction
- Frances HeussenstammAmerican artist and psychologist (1928–2019)
- Frances KammFrances Myrna Kamm () is an American philosopher specializing in normative and applied eth
- Frances StricklandAmerican psychologist
- Francesca GinoItalian-American behavioral scientist (born 1978)
- Francine ShapiroAmerican psychologist, creator of EMDR therapy (1948–2019)
- Francis AvelingCanadian psychologist and Catholic priest
- Francis Graham CrookshankPhysician and medical writer
- FrancizationExpansion of the French language
- Franco BasagliaItalian psychiatrist (1924–1980)
- François Henri HallopeauFrançois Henri Hallopeau (17 January 1842, Paris – 20 March 1919, Paris) was a French derm
- François PeraldiFrançois Peraldi (May 2, 1938 – March 21, 1993) was a Canadian psychoanalyst and linguist.
- François Perrier (psychoanalyst)French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Françoise DoltoFrench pediatrician and psychoanalyst
- Frank C. WorrellFrank C. Worrell is a psychologist and academic. He is a distinguished professor at the Un
- Frank Honywill GeorgeFrank Honywill George (2 May 1921 – 10 September 1997) was a British psychologist, cyberne
- Frank NeunerProfessor of Clinical Psychology
- Frank PrizeAward
- Franz AlexanderFranz Gabriel Alexander (22 January 1891 – 8 March 1964) was a Hungarian-American psychoan
- Franz Nabl PrizeThe Franz Nabl Prize is an biennial Austrian literature award. The prize was first awarded
- Franziska BaumgartenSwiss psychologist
- Fred August MossAmerican psychologist
- Fred Emery (psychologist)Australian psychologist (1925–1997)
- Fred Newman (philosopher)American activist and therapist
- Fred R. VolkmarFred Robert Volkmar (born 1950 in Illinois) is a psychiatrist, psychologist, and the Irvin
- Fred W. MastSwiss psychologist
- Frederic M. LordFrederic Mather Lord (November 12, 1912 – February 5, 2000) was a psychometrician for Educ
- Frederick K. GoodwinAmerican psychiatrist (1936–2020)
- Frederick Payne WattsFrederick Payne Watts, (1904, Staunton, Virginia – 2007) was an American psychologist. Wat
- Free association (psychology)Technique used in psychoanalysis
- Free Expression Policy ProjectAmerican free speech advocacy and research organization
- Free loveSocial movement that accepts all forms of love
- Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art1990 book by Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Free recallMemory paradigm
- Fregoli delusionMental disorder
- Freiburger PersönlichkeitsinventarThe Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar (FPI) is a psychological personality test to assess
- French and Raven's bases of powerStudy and taxonomy of types of power
- French Foundation for the Study of Human ProblemsFrench eugenics organization
- Frendak v. United StatesFrendak v. United States, 408 A.2d 364 (D.C. 1979) is a landmark case in which District of
- Frequency illusionKind of cognitive bias
- Freud MuseumHistoric house museum in London, England
- Freud's psychoanalytic theoriesLook to unconscious drives to explain human behavior
- Freud's seduction theoryAbandoned 1890s psychological hypothesis
- Freudian coverupTheory about Sigmund Freud
- Freudian slipConcept in classical psychoanalysis
- Freudo-MarxismPhilosophical perspectives informed by Freud and Marx
- Friday the 13thUnlucky day in popular superstition
- Frieda FordhamSocial worker
- Frieda Goldman-EislerPsychologist
- Friedrich HackerAustrian-American psychiatrist (1914–1989)
- Friendship braceletBracelet given as a symbol of friendship
- FrigophobiaFear of being cold
- Fritz RedlAustrian psychoanalyst (1902–1988)
- Fritz StrackGerman social psychologist
- Frog pond effectPsychological effect
- From Two to Five1933 book of Korney Chukovsky
- Froma WalshClinical Psychologist and family therapist
- Frontiers in PsychologyAcademic journal
- FrotteurismParaphilic interest in rubbing
- FrownFacial expression
- Frustration–aggression hypothesisTheory of aggression
- Fujimorist propagandaPropaganda for former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori
- Full Catastrophe Living1990 book by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Full range leadership modelTheory of leadership
- FunPleasure, enjoyment, or amusement
- Functional accounts of emotionA functional account of emotions posits that emotions facilitate adaptive responses to env
- Functional analysis (psychology)Functional analysis in behavioral psychology is the application of the laws of operant and
- Functional attitude theoryPsychology theory
- Functional fixednessInability to use an object other than how it is traditionally used
- Functional leadership modelTheory of Leadership
- Fundamental attribution errorPsychological phenomenon
- Fure's CabinFure's Cabin is a historic 15-by-20-foot (4.6 m × 6.1 m) log cabin that was built in c.192
- Furtive fallacyInformal fallacy of emphasis
- Future selfResearch that examines the processes of thinking of oneself in the future
- Future Shock1970 book by Alvin Toffler
- Future-oriented therapyApproach to psychotherapy
- Fuzzy cognitive mapType of cognitive map
- Fuzzy conceptVarying application boundaries
- Fuzzy-trace theoryTheory of cognition