The nose ring theory, or the septum ring theory, is making its rounds online again. It all began on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, after X user Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) shared a post with a video of a ...

Move over Bean Soup, Burnt Toast and Taxi Cab, because there’s a new supposed ‘theory’ currently overrunning TikTok’s FYP. For those who haven’t spent every waking moment on TikTok (just me, I guess?) ...

A few years ago, psychologist Susan Silk and her friend Barry Goldman wrote about a concept they called the “Ring Theory.” It’s a theory to help yourself know what to do in a crisis. If the crisis is ...

The "Ring Theory" suggests that, in a crisis, we sit at the center of a set of social rings. When we face a crisis, the people closest to the crisis would fit around us in the first ring, and others ...