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analysis of children and parents
 
analysis of consciousness
 
analysis of cooperation
 
analysis of feeding and disgust
 
analysis of group conflict
 
analysis of revenge and justice
 
analysis of self-deception
 
analysis of sexuality
 
analysis of violence
 
environment of evolutionary adaptedness
 
and international relations
 
science of
 
excess deaths
 
exchange relationships
 
executions,
see
capital punishment
 
exogenous variables
 
Expanding Circle, theory of
 
 
face-to-face violence
 
Fagen, Michael
 
fairness;
see also
altruism, reciprocal; Autonomy, ethic of; Equality Matching
 
Falkenrath, Richard
 
Falkland Islands
 
FALN
 
false-consensus effect
 
family structures
 
famine
 
Fantasticks, The
(musical)
 
Farrakhan, Louis
 
fascism
 
Fattah, Khaled
 
FBI
 
fear:
 
and the brain
 
and competition
 
as “diffidence,”
 
and genocide
 
group-against-group
 
psychology of
 
and terrorism
 
Fearon, James
 
Fechner’s law, applied to lives;
see also
statistical lives
 
Federalist Papers
 
Fehr, Ernst
 
Feingold, David
 
Feller, William
 
females,
see
women
 
feminization
 
Fest, Joachim
 
Festinger, Leon
 
feudal system
 
fiction
 
Fierke, K. M.
 
fight-or-flight response
 
filicides
 
Fine Madness, A
(film)
 
Finkelhor, David
 
Fisher, David Hackett
 
fishing
 
Fiske, Alan
 
fisticuffs;
see also
face-to-face violence
 
Flavius Josephus
 
flogging
 
Flynn, James
 
Flynn Effect
 
Fogel, Robert
 
forgiveness
 
formal operations, Piagetian stage
 
Fortna, Virginia Page
 
forward panic (rampage)
 
fossil hominids
 
Fox, James Alan
 
France:
 
Albigensian Crusade
 
and Algeria
 
book production in
 
colonies of
 
government in
 
as great power
 
homicides in
 
romantic militarism in
 
slavery abolished in
 
torture in
 
and Vietnam
 
wars fought in
 
witch-hunters in
 
Franco-Prussian War
 
Frank, Anne
 
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
 
freakonomics theory of crime decline
 
free market;
see also
commerce; gentle commerce; trade, international
 
free-rider problem
 
free speech
 
Free the Slaves (organization)
 
French Revolution
 
Freud, Sigmund
 
friendship
 
Frith, Chris
 
Fukuyama, Francis
 
 
Gächter, Simon
 
Gacy, John Wayne
 
Gaddis, John
 
Gage, Phineas
 
Galen
 
Galileo Galilei
 
Galois, Évariste
 
gambler’s fallacy
 
gambling, and violence
 
game theory;
see also
coordination games; Dictator game; Escalation game; Pacifist’s Dilemma; positive-sum games; Prisoner’s Dilemma; Public Goods game; Tragedy of the Commons; Trust game; Ultimatum game; War of Attrition game; zero-sum games
 
Gandhi, Indira
 
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
 
Gandhi, Rajmohan
 
Gangs of New York
(film)
 
Garrard, Graeme
 
Garrison, William Lloyd
 
Garton Ash, Timothy
 
Garwin, Richard
 
Gat, Azar
 
gay rights,
see
homosexuality
 
General Social Survey
 
generation gap
 
Generation X,
 
genes
 
and aggression
 
feedback loops of
 
mutations in
 
Warrior Gene theory
 
Geneva Conventions
 
Genghis Khan
 
genocide
 
age of
 
Albigensian Crusade
 
and categorization
 
and commerce
 
as crimes against humanity
 
death rates in
 
division of labor in
 
Holocaust
 
and Enlightenment
 
and evil
 
and Hitler
 
long-term trends
 
and ideology
 
of Native Americans
 
Nazism
 
participation in
 
and political crises
 
psychology of
 
and rape
 
risk factors
 
survivors of
 
word coined for
 
Genovese, Jeremy
 
Genovese, Kitty
 
gentle commerce
 
as antiwar measure
 
and Civilizing Process
 
and cooperation
 
introduction of concept
 
and Kant
 
and Leviathan
 
and Liberal Peace
 
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
 
George, Saint
 
Georgia (Asia)
 
Georgia (U.S.), homicides in
 
Gerges, Fawaz
 
German Peace Society
 
Germany:
 
Berlin Wall
 
borders of
 
and empire
 
genocide in;
see also
Holocaust
 
homicides in
 
militarism in
 
Nazi Party in,
see
Nazism
 
pacifism in
 
and poison gas
 
unification
 
wars fought in
 
witch-hunters in
 
and world wars
 
Geronimo
 
Gigerenzer, Gerd
 
Gilbert, Daniel
 
Gilles de Rais
 
Gilligan, Carol
 
Gilmore commission
 
Gimme Shelter
(documentary)
 
Ginges, Jeremy
 
Gini coefficient
 
Giuliani, Rudy
 
Glaeser, Edward
 
Gleason, Jackie
 
Gleditsch, Kristian
 
Gleditsch, Nils Petter
 
globalization;
see also
trade, international
 
Global Terrorism Database
 
Global Village
 
Global Zero
 
glory, concept of
 
Glover, Jonathan
 
glucose
 
God;
see also
religion
 
Godfather, The
(film)
 
Godwin, William
 
Goetz, Bernhard
 
Goffman, Erving
 
Golden Arches theory
 
Golden Rule
 
Goldhagen, Daniel
 
Goldstein, Joshua
 
Goldwater, Barry
 
Gone With the Wind
(film)
 
Goodall, Jane
 
Goodman, Andrew
 
Goodman, Paul
 
Goodwin, Jan
 
Gopnik, Adam
 
Gorbachev, Mikhail
 
Gore, Al
 
Gorton, William
 
Gottfredson, Michael
 
Gottschall, Jonathan
 
Gould, Stephen Jay
 
government:
 
anarchy contrasted with
 
benefits of
 
and civilization
 
and civil war

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