The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (190 page)

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Diels, Janie
 
DiIulio, John
 
Dionysian vs. Apollonian cultures
 
discounting, temporal;
see also
self-control
 
discrimination
 
disgust
 
Disney, Walt
 
distress
 
and sympathy-altruism hypothesis
 
District of Columbia, homicides in
 
Divinity, ethic of
; see also
disgust; Purity, ethic of
 
Djilas, Milovan
 
DNA testing
 
Dodds, Graham
 
dodgeball
 
domestic violence
 
outside U.S.
 
dominance
 
and anarchy
 
and the brain
 
as cause of war
 
circuit in brain
 
gender differences in
 
group (tribalism)
 
hierarchies of
 
and information
 
introduction of concept
 
and nationalism
 
dominance (
cont.
)
 
and sadism
 
and self-esteem
 
and social identity
 
as zero-sum game
 
dominance hierarchy
 
Dominica
 
Donohue, John
 
Doomsday Clock
 
dopamine
 
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
 
Douglas, William O.
 
Douglass, Frederick
 
Dover Doctrine
 
Dowd, Maureen
 
Doyle, Arthur Conan
 
Draco
 
Draize procedure
 
drones
 
drugs:
 
decriminalization of
 
1960s
 
trafficking
 
War on Drugs
 
Druids
 
Dubner, Stephen
 
Duck Soup
(film)
 
Duckworth, Angela
 
dueling
 
Dukakis, Michael
 
Dulles, John Foster
 
Dumas, Alexandre
père
 
Durham, Margaret
 
Dworkin, Andrea
 
Dylan, Bob
 
dynasties,
see
Age of Dynasties; monarchy
 
 
Eastern Europe
 
abortions in
 
and democracy
 
and genocide
 
violence against women in
 
wars in
 
East Timor
 
Easy Rider
(film)
 
Eckhardt, William
 
Eden, William
 
education
 
and civil war
 
and democracy
 
IQ tests
 
method and content of
 
ego depletion
 
egotism
 
Egypt, ancient
 
Egypt, modern
 
Eichmann, Adolf
 
80:20 rule
 
Eighty Years’ War
 
Einstein, Albert
 
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
 
Eisner, Manuel
 
Elias, Norbert
 
The Civilizing Process
 
on medieval Europe
 
on self-control
 
Eliot, George
 
Eliot, T. S.
 
Elizabeth I, queen of England
 
Ellickson, Robert
 
El Salvador
 
Emancipation Proclamation
 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
 
emotions
 
and armies
 
and the brain
 
and conflict resolution
 
contagious
 
control of
 
and genocide
 
in Middle Ages
 
moralizing
 
opponent process theory of
 
postpartum
 
and psychopathy
 
see also
anger; compassion; disgust; empathy; fear; forgiveness; guilt; sympathy
 
empathy
 
and the brain
 
circle of
 
and Civilizing Process
 
and counterempathy
 
dark side of
 
and Humanitarian Revolution
 
introduction of concept
 
and literacy
 
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
 
parochial nature of
 
and revenge modulation
 
sadism deterred by
 
use of term
 
see also
mentalizing; sympathy; theory of mind
 
empathy-altruism hypothesis
 
Emperor’s New Clothes
 
endogenous opiates
 
endogenous variables
 
endorphins
 
Enga people of New Guinea
 
Engelsing, Rolf
 
Engerman, Stanley
 
England:
 
anti-Catholic riots in
 
aristocrats in
 
Blitz in
 
bobbies
 
book production in
 
capital punishment in
 
Civilizing Process in
 
Civil War
 
domestic violence in
 
Glorious Revolution (1688)
 
homicide rates in
 
income in
 
interest rates in
 
literacy in
 
medieval
 
punishments in
 
witchcraft in
 
see also
Britain/United Kingdom
 
Englis, Basil
 
Enlightenment
 
and autonomy
 
and Civilizing Process
 
counter-Enlightenment
 
definition of
 
and the Holocaust
 
and humanitarian reform
 
and Islam
 
and women’s rights
 
Enlightenment humanism
 
environmental issues
 
environment of evolutionary adaptedness
 
Equality Matching
 
Equal Rights Amendment
 
Erasmus, Desiderius
 
Ericksen, Karen
 
Eritrean-Ethiopian war
 
Ervin, Sam
 
Escalation game;
see also
War of Attrition game
 
escalator of reason
 
Esperanto
 
essentialism, psychological
 
E.T.
(film)
 
Ethical Marine Warrior
 
ethnic cleansing
 
ethnic conflict
 
ethnic riots, deadly;
see also
pogroms
 
etiquette
 
in medieval times
 
and self-control
 
eunuchs
 
euphemism
 
Europe:
 
antiwar views in
 
armed forces of
 
capital punishment in
 
centralized monarchies in
 
colonies of
 
dark ages in
 
democracy in
 
early modern
 
etiquette in
 
explorers from
 
homicide rates in
 
interstate wars in Cold War
 
literacy in
 
medieval
 
national borders in
 
states of
 
terrorism in
 
20th-century
 
witchcraft in
 
world wars in
 
European Union
 
euthanasia
 
Evers, Medgar
 
evil:
 
banality of
 
definition of
 
and the Devil
 
effects of
 
and moral sense
 
myth of pure
 
evolution
 
adaptation
 
biological
 
cannibalism in
 
competition
 
in cultural change
 
dominance in
 
and game theory
 
and heritability
 
of human societies
 
natural selection
 
of nonviolence
 
and primate behavior
 
recent
 
of reciprocal altruism
 
survival
 
uses of term
 
evolutionary psychology:
 

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