The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (194 page)

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Authors: Steven Pinker

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and deterrence
 
and divorce
 
and domestic violence outside U.S.
 
goal of
 
and homicide rates
 
and homosexuality
 
incarceration rate
 
and infanticide
 
mandatory sentencing laws
 
in 1960s
 
and rape charges
 
restorative
 
self-help (vigilantism)
 
and social class
 
and women as property
 
see also
Leviathan
 
 
Kaeuper, Richard,
Lancelot
 
Kagan, Robert
 
Kahn, Herman
 
Kahneman, Daniel
 
Kali (Hindu goddess)
 
Kanazawa, Satoshi
 
Kant, Immanuel
 
on Categorical Imperative
 
on free trade
 
on morality
 
“Perpetual Peace,”
 
Kantian Peace;
see also
Democratic Peace theory; Liberal Peace
 
Karsten, Rafael
 
Kaysen, Carl
 
Keaton, Diane
 
Keegan, John
 
Keeley, Lawrence
 
keelhauling
 
Keen, Suzanne
 
Keillor, Garrison
 
Kelling, George
 
Kelman, Herbert
 
Kennedy, Anthony M.
 
Kennedy, David
 
Kennedy, John F.
 
Kennedy, Robert F.
 
Kennewick Man
 
Kenrick, Douglas
 
Kenya
 
Kerry, John
 
Khameini, Ayatollah Ali
 
Khond people
 
Khrushchev, Nikita
 
Kiernan, Ben
 
killing:
 
face-to-face
 
serial
 
spree
 
see also
homicide rates
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
 
King, Martin Luther
 
King, Rodney
 
King of Hearts
(film)
 
kin selection;
see also
nepotistic altruism
 
kinship
 
and blood feuds
 
and dynasties
 
and homicides
 
and nepotism
 
in tribes
 
Kinsley, Michael
 
Kinzler, Katherine
 
Kirby, Kris
 
Kissinger, Henry A.
 
Knauft, Bruce
 
knights
 
control of
 
depictions of daily life
 
turf battles among
 
knives, etiquette of
 
Koechlin, Etienne
 
Koestler, Arthur
 
Kohlberg, Lawrence
 
Korean War
 
Kosovo
 
Krebs, Dennis
 
Krishna
 
Krystal, Arthur
 
Kubrick, Stanley
 
Ku Klux Klan
 
!Kung San people
 
Kurzban, Robert
 
Kuwabara, Ko
 
Kuwait, Iraqi invasion of
 
 
Lacina, Bethany
 
Lafree, Gary
 
LaGuardia, Fiorello
 
Laibson, David
 
Laitin, David
 
Lake Wobegon Effect
 
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de
 
Lambert, Wallace
 
Lamm, Claus
 
language:
 
common, and war
 
euphemism
 
gender in
 
informalization in 1960s
 
metaphors
 
in Middle Ages
 
and possession of a soul
 
of self-control
 
translations
 
word frequencies in
 
Lansing, Robert
 
Lanzetta, John
 
Laporte, Pierre
 
Latané, Bibb
 
Latin America:
 
crime in
 
revolutions in
 
terrorists in
 
wars in
 
Laub, John
 
law:
 
acceptance of legitimacy of
 
against slavery
 
bankruptcy
 
bright lines in
 
Broken Windows theory
 
changing public view of
 
commercial
 
courts,
see
justice system
 
international
 
and moral agitation
 
and morality
 
in 1960s
 
police
 
possession in
 
Roman
 
rule of
 
Sharia
 
social conservative view of
 
of torture
 
in violence triangle
 
see also
justice system
 
Law & Order
(TV)
 
Lawrence, D. H.
 
Lawrence, Saint
 
Lea, Rod
 
leaders:
 
complexity of speeches
 
intelligence of
 
motives of
 
narcissism of
 
openness to experience in
 
overconfidence in
 
selection of
 
women
 
see also
autocracy; democracy; despotism; monarchy
 
League of Nations
 
Leary, Timothy
 
LeBlanc, Steven
 
Lebow, Richard Ned
 
Lee, Harper
 
Lehrer, Tom
 
Lemkin, Raphael
 
Lennon, John
 
Leonardo da Vinci
 
Leopold, king of Belgium
 
Levi, Michael
 
Levi, Primo
 
Levi, Werner,
The Coming End of War
 
Leviathan:
 
aggression curbed by
 
and commerce
 
emergence of
 
and human nature
 
international
 
introduction of concept
 
legitimate use of force by
 
monarchies
 
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
 
in violence triangle
 
see also
anarchy; government; states
 
Levin, Jack
 
Levitt, Steven
 
Levy, Jack
 
Lewis, Bernard
 
liberal democracy
 
liberalism:
 
classical
 
and conservatism
 
and gentle commerce
 
and intelligence
 
and morality
 
and nationalism
 
and Rights Revolutions
 
use of term
 
Liberal Peace
 
Liberia, civil war in
 
libertarianism
 
Liebenberg, Louis
 
life history theory
 
lightning strikes
 
limbic system
 
Lincoln, Abraham
 
Lindow Man
 
literacy
 
Lithgow, William
 
Li Zhisui
 
Lloyd George, David
 
Locke, John
 
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
 
Two Treatises on Government
 
Lodge, David
 
Loewenstein, George
 
London Blitz
 
Long, William
 
Long Peace
 
chemical weapons
 
democratic peace
 
disarmament
 
great power wars
 
and Humanitarian Revolution
 
introduction of concept
 
Kantian Peace
 
Liberal Peace
 
nuclear peace
 
numbers related to
 
violence in 20th century
 
Lorenz, Konrad
 
loss aversion
 
Lott, Trent
 
Luard, Evan
 
Luria, Alexander
 
Luther, Martin
 
 
macabre voyeurism
 
Macaulay, Thomas
 
McCauley, Clark
 
McClure, Samuel
 
McCormack, Mary Ellen
 
McCullough, Michael

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