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23. Self-serving biases: Goffman, 1959; Tavris & Aronson, 2007; Trivers, in press; von Hippel & Trivers, 2011; Kurzban, 2011.
24. Cognitive dissonance: Festinger, 1957. Lake Wobegon Effect and other positive illusions: Taylor, 1989.
25. Moral emotions as the basis for cooperation: Haidt, 2002; Pinker, 2008; Trivers, 1971.
26. Advantages of the Moralization Gap: Baumeister, 1997; Baumeister et al., 1990; Stillwell & Baumeister, 1997.
27. Self-deception as an adaptation: Trivers, 1976, 1985, in press; von Hippel & Trivers, 2011.
28. Orwell: Quoted in Trivers, 1985.
29. Problems with self-deception: Pinker, 2011.
30. True self-deception: Valdesolo & DeSteno, 2008.
31. Competing historical narratives: Baumeister, 1997.
32. Aggrieved Serbs: Baumeister, 1997, pp. 50–51; van Evera, 1994.
33. Truthiness of Roosevelt’s infamy speech: Mueller, 2006.
34. Evildoers’ point of view: Baumeister, 1997, chap. 2.
35. Hitler as an idealist: Baumeister, 1997, chap. 2; Bullock, 1991; Rosenbaum, 1998.
36. Spree killer: Quoted in J. McCormick & P. Annin, “Alienated, marginal, and deadly,”
Newsweek,
Sept. 19, 1994.
37. Serial rapist: Quoted in Baumeister, 1997, p. 41.
38. Gacy: Quoted in Baumeister, 1997, p. 49.
39. Crime as social control: Black, 1983. Provocations to domestic violence: Buss, 2005; Collins, 2008; Straus, 1977/1978.
40. Perspectives of the victim, perpetrator, scientist, and moralist: Baumeister, 1997.
41. Immorality of explaining the Holocaust: Shermer, 2004, pp. 76–79; Rosenbaum, 1998.
42. Banality of evil: Arendt, 1963.
43. Eichmann: Goldhagen, 2009.
44. Research inspired by Arendt: Milgram, 1974.
45. Predation versus aggression in mammals: Adams, 2006; Panksepp, 1998.
46. Sham versus real rage: Panksepp, 1998.
47. Modularity of motor program versus emotional state: Adams, 2006.
48. Rage circuit: Panksepp, 1998.
49. Aggression in the rat: Adams, 2006; Panksepp, 1998.
50. Pain, frustration, and aggression: Renfrew, 1997, chap. 6.
51. Orbitofrontal and ventromedial cortex: Damasio, 1994; Fuster, 2008; Jensen et al., 2007; Kringelbach, 2005; Raine, 2008; Scarpa & Raine, 2007; Seymour, Singer, & Dolan, 2007.
52. Seeking system: Panksepp, 1998.
53. Self-stimulation: Olds & Milner, 1954.
54. Offensive versus defensive attacks: Adams, 2006; Panksepp, 1998.
55. Fear versus rage: Adams, 2006; Panksepp, 1998.
56. Dominance system: Panksepp, 1998.
57. Male sexuality and aggressiveness: Panksepp, 1998, p. 199.
58. Testosterone: Archer, 2006b; Dabbs & Dabbs, 2000; Panksepp, 1998.
59. Phineas Gage: Damasio, 1994; Macmillan, 2000.
60. Gage was no longer Gage: Quoted in Macmillan, 2000.
61. Orbital and ventromedial cortex connected to amygdala: Damasio, 1994; Fuster, 2008; Jensen et al., 2007; Kringelbach, 2005; Raine, 2008; Scarpa & Raine, 2007; Seymour et al., 2007.
62. Anger at unfairness lights up the insula: Sanfey et al., 2003.
63. Orbitofrontal versus ventromedial cortex: Jensen et al., 2007; Kringelbach, 2005; Raine, 2008; Seymour et al., 2007.
64. Modern Phineas Gages: Séguin, Sylvers, & Lilienfeld, 2007, p. 193.
65. Traits of patients with frontal-lobe damage: Scarpa & Raine, 2007, p. 153.
66. Brains of psychopaths, murderers, and antisocials: Blair & Cipolotti, 2000; Blair, 2004; Raine, 2008; Scarpa & Raine, 2007.
67. Orbital lesions affect dominance hierarchies: Séguin et al., 2007, p. 193.
68. Orbital damage, faux pas, and empathy: Stone, Baron-Cohen, & Knight, 1998.
69. Orbital damage and shame: Raine et al., 2000.
70.
Mens rea
and fMRI: Young & Saxe, 2009.
71. Theory of mind and temporoparietal junction: Saxe & Kanwisher, 2003.
72. Crying babies and runaway trolleys: Greene, in press; Greene & Haidt, 2002; Pinker, 2008.
73. Your brain on morality: Greene, in press; Greene & Haidt, 2002; Greene et al., 2001.
74. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: Fuster, 2008.
75. Taxonomy of violence: Baumeister, 1997.
76. Adaptations for exploitation: Buss & Duntley, 2008.
77. Castrating a horse: From F. Zimring, quoted in Kaplan, 1973, p. 23.
78. Empathy and tracking: Liebenberg, 1990.
79. Ugandan atrocity: Baumeister, 1997, p. 125.
80. Psychopaths: Hare, 1993; Lykken, 1995; Mealey, 1995; Raine, 2008; Scarpa & Raine, 2007.
81. Proportion of psychopaths among violent criminals: G. Miller, “Investigating the psychopathic mind,”
Science
, Sept. 5, 2008, pp. 1284–86; Hare, 1993; Baumeister, 1997, p. 138.
82. Psychopaths’ brains: Raine, 2008.
83. Heritability of psychopathic symptoms: Hare, 1993; Lykken, 1995; Mealey, 1995; Raine, 2008. Psychopathy as a cheater strategy: Kinner, 2003; Lalumière, Harris, & Rice, 2001; Mealey, 1995; Rice, 1997.
84. Psychopaths in genocides and civil wars: Mueller, 2004a; Valentino, 2004.
85. Backsliding into emotional categories: Cosmides & Tooby, 1992; Pinker, 2007b, chaps. 5 and 9.
86. Disgust, hatred, anger: Tooby & Cosmides, 2010.
87. Positive illusions: Johnson, 2004; Tavris & Aronson, 2007; Taylor, 1989.
88. Self-deception and lie detection: von Hippel & Trivers, 2011.
89. Advantages of self-deception: Trivers, 1976, in press; von Hippel & Trivers, 2011.
90. Churchill: Quoted in Johnson, 2004, p. 1.
91. Deluded war leaders: Luard, 1986, pp. 204, 212, 268–69.
92. Initiators often lose their wars: Johnson, 2004, p. 4; Lindley & Schildkraut, 2005; Luard, 1986, p. 268.
93. Military incompetence as self-deception: Wrangham, 1999b.
94. War game: Johnson et al., 2006.
95. Groupthink in the Bush administration: K. Alter, “Is Groupthink driving us to war?”
Boston Globe
, Sept. 21, 2002.
96. Groupthink: Janis, 1982.
97. Logic of trivial altercations: Daly & Wilson, 1988, p. 127.
98. Logic of dominance: Daly & Wilson, 1988; Dawkins, 1976/1989; Maynard Smith, 1988.
99. Alliances in dominance: Boehm, 1999; de Waal, 1998.
100. Displays in dominance: Dawkins, 1976/1989; Maynard Smith, 1988.
101. Common knowledge: Chwe, 2001; Lee & Pinker, 2010; Lewis, 1969; Pinker, 2007b.
102. Culture of honor predicts violence: Brezina, Agnew, Cullen, & Wright, 2004.
103. Audience effect: Felson, 1982; Baumeister, 1997, pp. 155–56. See also McCullough, 2008; McCullough, Kurzban, & Tabak, 2010.
104. Dominance and group size: Baumeister, 1997, p. 167.
105. Forgiveness in primates: de Waal, 1996; McCullough, 2008.
106. Forgiveness only among kin or cooperators: McCullough, 2008.
107. Chimps don’t reconcile across community lines: Van der Dennen, 2005; Wrangham & Peterson, 1996; Wrangham et al., 2006.
108. Men more obsessed by status: Browne, 2002; Susan M. Pinker, 2008; Rhoads, 2004.
109. Men take more risks: Byrnes, Miller, & Schafer, 1999; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Johnson, 2004; Johnson et al., 2006; Rhoads, 2004.
110. Labor economists and gender gaps: Browne, 2002; Susan M. Pinker, 2008; Rhoads, 2004.
111. Gender gap in violence: Archer, 2006b, 2009; Buss, 2005; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Geary, 2010; Goldstein, 2001.
112. Biological basis of sex difference: Geary, 2010; Pinker, 2002, chap. 18; Archer, 2009; Blum, 1997; Browne, 2002; Halpern, 2000.
113. Relational aggression: Geary, 2010; Crick, Ostrov, & Kawabata, 2007.
114. Dominance and sex appeal: Buss, 1994; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Ellis, 1992; Symons, 1979.
115. Ancient perquisites of dominance: Betzig, 1986; Betzig, Borgerhoff Mulder, & Turke, 1988.
116. Modern sex appeal of dominance: Buss, 1994; Ellis, 1992.
117. Sex differences in the brain: Blum, 1997; Geary, 2010; Panksepp, 1998.
118. Guyness: N. Angier, “Does testosterone equal aggression? Maybe not,”
New York Times
, Jun. 20, 1995.
119. Testosterone and challenge: Archer, 2006b; Dabbs & Dabbs, 2000; Johnson et al., 2006; McDermott, Johnson, Cowden, & Rosen, 2007.
120. Parenting versus mating effort: Buss, 1994; Buss & Schmitt, 1993.
121. Paradox of greater risk-taking in youth: Daly & Wilson, 2005.
122. Violence over the life cycle: Daly & Wilson, 1988, 2000; Rogers, 1994.
123. The self-esteem myth: Baumeister, 1997; Baumeister, Smart, & Boden, 1996.
124. “multitalented superachievers”: Quoted in Baumeister, 1997, p. 144.
125. Explaining Hitler: Rosenbaum, 1998, p. xii.
126. Narcissistic personality disorder in
DSM-IV:
American Psychiatric Association, 2000.
127. Narcissism, borderline, and psychopathic disorders in tyrants: Bullock, 1991; Oakley, 2007; Shermer, 2004. See also Chirot, 1994; Glover, 1999.
128. Social identity: Brown, 1985; Pratto, Sidanius, & Levin, 2006; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Tajfel, 1981; Tooby, Cosmides, & Price, 2006.
129. Mood and sports teams: Brown, 1985.
130. Testosterone after a sports match: Archer, 2006b; Dabbs & Dabbs, 2000; McDermott et al., 2007.
131. Testosterone after an election: Stanton et al., 2009.
132. In-group favoritism: Brown, 1985; Hewstone, Rubin, & Willis, 2002; Pratto et al., 2006; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Tajfel, 1981.
133. Little racists: Aboud, 1989. Babies, race, and accent: Kinzler, Shutts, DeJesus, & Spelke, 2009.
134. Social dominance: Pratto et al., 2006; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999.
135. Races versus coalitions: Kurzban, Tooby, & Cosmides, 2001; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999.
136. Accent and prejudice: Tucker & Lambert, 1969; Kinzler et al., 2009.
137.
Ressentiment
: Chirot, 1994, chap. 12; Goldstein, 2001, p. 409; Baumeister, 1997, p. 152.
138. German ressentiment: Chirot, 1994, chap. 12; Goldstein, 2001, p. 409; Baumeister, 1997.
139. Islamic ressentiment: Fattah & Fierke, 2009.
140. Hollandization: Mueller, 1989.
141. Skepticism about ancient hatreds: Brown, 1997; Fearon & Laitin, 1996; Fearon & Laitin, 2003; Lacina, 2006; Mueller, 2004a; van Evera, 1994.
142. Number of languages: Pinker, 1994, chap. 8.
143. Ethnic comity in the developed world: Brown, 1997.
144. Policing loose cannons: Fearon & Laitin, 1996.
145. Rubegoldbergian governments: Asal & Pate, 2005; Bell, 2007b; Brown, 1997; Mnookin, 2007; Sowell, 2004; Tyrrell, 2007. Rugby team as national unifier: Carlin, 2008.
146. Identity and violence: Appiah, 2006; Sen, 2006.
147. Men at both ends of racism: Pratto et al., 2006; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Sidanius & Veniegas, 2000.
148.
War and Gender:
Goldstein, 2001.
149. Queens who waged war: Luard, 1986, p. 194.
150. War as a man’s game: Gottschall, 2008.
151. Feminism and pacifism: Goldstein, 2001; Mueller, 1989.
152. Gender gap in opinion polls: Goldstein, 2001, pp. 329–30.
153. Gender gap in presidential elections: “Exit polls, 1980–2008,”
New York Times,
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/exit-polls.html
.
154. Gender gap smaller than society gap: Goldstein, 2001, pp. 329–30.
155. Feminist gap in the Middle East: Goldstein, 2001, pp. 329–30.
156. Treatment of women and war across cultures: Goldstein, 2001, pp. 396–99.
157. Women and war in modern countries: Goldstein, 2001, p. 399.
158. Women’s empowerment and rootless men: Hudson & den Boer, 2002; Potts & Hayden, 2008.
159. Dominance jargon: Google Books, analyzed by Bookworm (see the caption to figure 7–1), Michel et al., 2011.
160.
Glorious
and
honorable:
Google Books, analyzed by Bookworm (see the caption to figure 7–1), Michel et al., 2011.

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