The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (199 page)

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and war
 
Slovic, Paul
 
Smith, Adam
 
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
 
Smith, John Maynard
 
Smoot-Hawley Act
 
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The
(TV)
 
Snow, C. P.
 
social capital
 
social class
 
Indian caste system
 
social contract
 
social Darwinism
 
social dilemma
 
social dominance
 
social identity
 
socialism
 
social mobility
 
society, as organic system
 
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
 
Society for the Protection of Animals
 
sociopaths,
see
antisocial personality disorder; psychopaths
 
Sokal, Alan
 
soldiers,
see
armed forces
 
Solomon, King
 
Solomon, Richard
 
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
 
Somoza, Anastasio
 
Song of the South
(film)
 
Sorokin, Pitirim
 
souls:
 
of animals
 
vs. lives
 
transmigration of
 
South, American:
 
antiblack terrorism in
 
culture of honor in
 
slavery in
 
violence in
 
South Africa
 
South-West Africa, genocide in
 
sovereignty
 
Soviet Union,
see
USSR
 
Sowell, Thomas
 
Spagat, Michael
 
Spain
 
commerce in
 
Madrid train bombings
 
wars in
 
Spanish Inquisition
 
Spee, Father Friedrich
 
Spielberg, Steven
 
Spierenburg, Pieter
 
Spinoza, Baruch
 
Spitzer, Steven
 
Spock, Benjamin
 
sports, violent
 
sports fandom
 
spree killers
 
Springsteen, Bruce
 
Sri Lanka
 
Stalin, Joseph
 
Stanford Prison Experiment
 
Starr, Edwin
 
state-based armed conflict
 
states:
 
borders of
 
centralization of power in
 
destruction of
 
economic development of
 
emergence of
 
failed
 
homicide rates in
 
nonnuclear
 
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
 
trust in
 
war deaths
 
statistical lives
 
statistics:
 
bell curve
 
cluster illusion
 
conjunction fallacy
 
cross-lagged correlation
 
deadly quarrels
 
frequency
 
logarithmic scale
 
multiple logistic regression
 
orders of magnitude
 
patterns in
 
post hoc vs. a priori comparison
 
power-law distributions
 
probability
 
randomness
 
regression to the mean
 
rounding
 
Steckel, Richard
 
Steinbeck, John
 
stereotyping;
see also
categorization; essentialism, psychological; racism; sexism
 
Stewart, Jon
 
Stillwell, Arlene
 
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 
Straus, Murray
 
Stravinsky, Igor
 
Straw, Margaret
 
Stroop task
 
Sturm und Drang
movement
 
Sudan
 
Suedfeld, Peter
 
Sugiyama, Lawrence
 
suicide terrorism
 
Suk, Jeannie
 
sunk-cost fallacy;
see also
loss aversion
 
Sunstein, Cass
 
superrationality
 
suttee
 
Suttner, Bertha von
 
Sutton, Willie
 
Swift, Jonathan
 
Switzerland
 
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
 
Symons, Donald
 
sympathy;
see also
empathy
 
sympathy-altruism hypothesis
 
systematicity, in cognitive science
 
Szathmáry, Eörs
 
 
Taagepera, Rein
 
taboos:
 
chemical weapons
 
conquest
 
and euphemism
 
human life
 
infanticide
 
knife
 
in language
 
mentality of
 
and moral sense
 
national borders
 
nuclear
 
and political correctness
 
psychology of
 
rape, in video games
 
torture
 
tradeoffs
 
violence against children
 
weapons of mass destruction
 
tabula rasa
 
Tacitus
 
Tajfel, Henri
 
Taliban
 
Talmy, Len
 
Tamerlane (Timur Lenk)
 
Tamil Tigers
 
Tannenwald, Nina
 
Tanzania
 
taphonomy
 
Tavris, Carol
 
Taylor, Theodore
 
Tea Party movement
 
technology:
 
book production
 
Christian ideology vs.
 
and commerce
 
and cosmopolitanism
 
Global Village
 
government as
 
and information
 
killing at a distance
 
and moral progress
 
robots and drones
 
weaponry
 
temperance movement
 
temporal discounting;
see also
interest, and self-control
 
Ten Commandments
 
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
 
territory:
 
expansion of
 
fighting for
 
terrorism
 
Age of Terror
 
as asymmetrical warfare
 
and ethnic riots
 
failure of
 
and fear
 
in history
 
and Islam
 
nuclear
 
power-law distribution of
 
segregationist
 
September
 
statistics of
 
suicide
 
testosterone
 
Tetlock, Philip
 
Thaler, Richard
 
That Obscure Object of Desire
(film)
 
Theisen, Ole
 
theoconservatism
 
theocracy
 
theory of mind;
see also
empathy; mentalizing
 
third nature
 
third world,
see
developing world
 
Thirty Years’ War
 
Thomas, Clarence
 
Thöni, Christian
 
Three Mile Island
 
Thucydides
 
Thurmond, Strom
 
Thyne, Clayton
 
Till, Emmett
 
Tilly, Charles
 
Titchener, Edward
 
Tit for Tat game
 
tit-for-tat retaliation
 
Tocqueville, Alexis de
 
Tolstoy, Leo
 
Tooby, John
 
torture:
 
abolition of
 
death by a thousand cuts
 
as entertainment
 
and human sacrifice
 
of Inquisition
 
instruments of
 
of martyrs
 
in modern democracies
 
moral rationale of
 
museums of
 
as punishment
 
in Roman Empire
 
and Roman law
 
and sadism
 
salvation attained by

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