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Authors: Robert Trivers
Anterior cingulated cortex (ACC)
Anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC)
Anthropology, cultural
Anti-semitism
Ants
Apes
aPFC.
See
Anterior prefrontal cortex
Arabs
Argentina
Armenian genocide
Athletics
Australia
Automobile industry
Aviation disasters
Aeroflot Flight 593
Air Florida Flight 90
American Eagle Flight 4184
causes of
EgyptAir Flight 990
FAA response to
Gol Flight 1907
ice and
overconfidence and
pilot error and
September 11 and
tombstone technology and
Belgium
Beneffectance
Berlin Wall
Betrayal
Bible
Bin Laden, Osama
Biology
camouflage and
coevolutionary struggle and
death and near-death acts and
deception, consciousness of and
deception and anger and
false alarm calls and
female mimicry and
frequency dependence and
game theory and
intelligence and deception and
parasite-host relationships and
predator-prey relationships and
randomness and
religion and
Birds
Black Panthers
Black Plague
Blair, Tony
Blick, Hans
Bolivia
Bombing
Brain
happiness and
immune system and
of monkeys and apes
right vs. left
sex differences and
sleep, importance of and
Brazil
Breast cancer
Brood parasitism
Bush, George W.
Butterflies
Caching
California
Cambodia
Cambodians
Canada
Cancer cells
Capital punishment
Catholic Church, Catholicism
Central America
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Challenger
disaster
Children
cognitive dissonance in
deception in
disclosing trauma and
marital conflict and
name-letter effect and
parental investment and
parent-offspring relationship and
sexual abuse of
Chile
Chimpanzees
China
Chinese
Chomsky, Noam
Christian Zionism
See also
Zionism, Zionists
Christianity
Churchill, Winston
CIA.
See
Central Intelligence Agency
Civil War, US
Clarke, Richard
Class
Clinton, Bill
Coevolutionary struggle
deceiver and deceived and
frequency dependence and
intelligence and
parasite-host relationships and
predator-prey relationships and
Cognitive dissonance
in children
in monkeys
rationalization and
religion and
self-justification and
social effects of reduction of
Cognitive load
Colombia
Colonialism
Columbia
disaster
Columbus, Christopher
Compulsion
Con artists
Congo
Consciousness
deception and
knowledge and
language and
memory and
neurophysiology and
Contras
Control
Counselors, counseling
Courtship
Crime
Cromwell, Oliver
Cuba
Cultural anthropology
Daily life
con artists and
deceiving up and dummying down and
drugs and
face-ism and
humor and laughter and
lie-detector tests and
metaphors, use of in
name-letter effect and
sex differences in overconfidence and
spam vs. anti-spam and
stock market trading and
vulnerability to manipulation and
Darwin, Charles
Death
Deceit.
See
Deception; Self-deception
Deceived
Deceiver
Deception
anger and
behavioral
children and
cognitive load and
consciousness of
control and
costs of
denial and
detection of
economics and
evolutionary approach to
fantasy and
game theory and
general attributes of
intelligence and
natural selection and
in nature
nervousness and
nonverbal forms of
pervasiveness of
propagation of
selves
truth and
unconscious
See also
Self-deception
Defense Department, US
Defense mechanisms
Delta Airlines
Denial
aggression and
of deception
false historical narratives and
homosexuality and
projection and
as self-reinforcing
truth and
war and
Depression
Derogation of others
Determinism
Disassociation
Discrimination
Disease
Dishonesty.
See
Deception; Self-deception
Displacement activities
Divorce
DLPFC.
See
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Dominance
Dominican Republic
Dopamine
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)
Drugs
Dummying up
Eban, Abba
Economics
Egypt
EgyptAir Flight 990
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight
El Salvador
England
Ethnic cleansing
Ethnicity
Euphemism treadmill
Evolution
deception and
happiness, regulation of and
of intelligence
natural selection and
of religion
self-deception and
of sex differences
of sexes
of social relationships
of war
FAA.
See
Federal Aviation Administration
Face-ism
Faith
False alarm calls
False confessions
False historical narratives
Amerindians, eradication of
counterattack and
denial and
expansion at other’s expense and
history textbooks and
Israel and
Japanese history and
purpose of
rationalization and
religion and
Turkish genocide and
United States and
war and
Zionism and
False internal narratives
False personal narratives
Family
children, deception in and
extreme abuse and
genetic conflict and
genetic relatedness and
genomic imprinting and
inbreeding and
internal conflict in
marital conflict and
natural selection and
parent-offspring conflict and
parent-offspring relationship and
self-deception and
Fantasy
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Females.
See
Women
Feynman, Richard
Finland
Flattery
Founding Fathers
Frequency dependence
Freud, Sigmund
Friendship
From Time Immemorial
(Peters)
Future of Iraq project (State Department)
Galvanic skin response (GSR)
Game theory
Garner, Jay
Gates, Bill
Gaza
Genocide
Genomic imprinting
God
Golan Heights
Good Samaritan
Gorillas
GSR.
See
Galvanic skin response
Guatemala
Guilt
Haiti
Hamas
Happiness
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, William Henry
Hezbollah
History.
See
False historical narratives
Hitler, Adolf
HIV
Holocaust
Homicide
Homosexuality
Humor
Hussein, Saddam
Hypnosis
Immunology, immune system
brain and
cost of
happiness and
homosexuality and denial and
humor and laughter and
marriage and
music and
positive affect and
positivity in old age and
psychology and
religion and
sleep, importance of and
trade-offs and
writing about trauma and
Inbreeding
India
In-group associations
Intelligence
Investment
Iran
Iraq war (2003)
Iraq Working Group
Islam
Israel
anti-Semitism and
Arab deceit and self-deception and
Arabs, flight of and
Arabs, voluntary flight of and
Armenian genocide and
Christian Zionism and
false historical narratives and
founding of state of
Gaza, assault on of
Lebanon, assault on by
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Michael
Jamaica
Japan
Japanese
Japanese-Americans
Jefferson, Thomas
Jesus
Jews
Jews-4-Peace
Jihad
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Josiah, King
Judaism
Justice
Justice in Palestine
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, John F., Jr.