Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In psychology, the linking of a previous anxiety provoking stimulus with rewarding outcomes in fantasy: covert sensitization.  

Behavior that is disguised or concealed and not directly observable, covert.  

Concealed.  

The rule that an effect will be attributed to the condition that is present when the effect is present or absent when the effect is absent.  

Structural covariance.  

The change of two phenomena in relationship to each other. In statistics, the expected value of the product of the deviations of corresponding values of two variables from their respective means.  

The practice among some cultures wherein the man suffers the same symptoms during pregnancy as those of the partner, the pregnant woman, is experiencing. A custom in some tribes whereby a father takes to his bed during or after the birth of his child. The custom in some primitive cultures of the father remaining in…

In law, a court whose actions are recorded, possessing the authority to levy sanctions.  

A physician who is permitted to admit patients into a particular hospital, but who does little work within the hospital.  

A prostitute, especially mistress of noblemen.