The Making of the Mind: The Neuroscience of Human Nature (43 page)

causal inference,
118
–
20

emotions,
158
–
61
,
168

fundamental attribution error,
181
–
83

in-group versus out-group,
175
–
80
,
185
–
88

inner speech or voice,
29
,
115
–
18
,
144
,
155
,
159
–
61
,
234
,
240

moral judgments,
196
–
98

reconstructive retrieval,
135

self-concept,
118
–
20

social attributions,
186
–
88

Internet,
236
,
246
–
54

intrinsic religiosity.
See
religion

Izard, Carl,
150

James, William
213
–
14
,
220
–
22

jealousy,
167
–
68

John-Steiner, Vera,
235

joint attention,
67
–
70

Kanzi,
96

Kohlberg, Lawrence,
190

language,
14
,
29
,
31
,
174
,
203

and morality,
203

morpheme,
87
–
88

and out-groups,
179

phoneme,
88
–
89
,
238

phonology,
238

pragmatics,
91
–
92

semantics,
239

syntax,
89
–
90

Lazarus, Richard,
151

LeDoux, Joseph,
28

limbic system,
26
–
28
,
48

literacy,
31
,
71
,
237
–
39
,
250
–
51

long-term memory

declarative memory,
37
,
126
–
27
,
234

episodic memory,
126
,
129
–
30
,
132
–
37
,
234

procedural memory,
37
,
126

semantic memory,
126
–
29
,
131
–
32

Luria, A. R.,
235

MacLean, Paul,
27
–
28

Mazower, Mark,
178

memory.
See
long-term memory; working memory

mental time travel,
8
,
13
–
14
,
30
–
31
,
125
–
26
,
143
–
47
,
155
,
168
,
203
,
234
–
35

mesencephalon,
22
–
23
,
26

Mesolithic,
211

metencephalon,
23
,
26

Micklethwait, John,
227

midbrain.
See
brain structure

Milgram, Stanley,
193

mirror neurons,
198
–
202

mitochondrial DNA,
21

modules,
38
–
40

monkeys,
15
,
92
–
94

morality,
31
,
202
,

empathy,
198
–
201

moral intuitions,
196
–
98

moral muscle,
201
–
205

multiregional hypothesis.
See
human origins

Neanderthals.
See Homo neanderthalis

Neilsen, Michael,
253

Neolithic,
11
,
61

Newberg, Andrew,
224

nostalgia,
145
–
46

nucleus accumbens,
164

Olson, Donald,
244

Ong, Walter,
243
–
44

orangutan,
42

orbital frontal cortex,
207

out-of-Africa hypothesis.
See
human origins

oxytocin,
174

panic attack,
154

Phelps, Elizabeth,
160

phenotype,
16

phobia,
154
–
55

phonemes.
See
language

phonological loop,
37
,
44
–
46
.
See also
working memory

phonology.
See
language

placebo effect,
161
–
64

positive illusions,
120
–
23

Posner, Michael,
53

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
156
–
58

pragmatics.
See
language

prefrontal cortex,
41
–
42
,
47
–
48
,
66
,
89
,
175

ventromedial,
207

dorsolateral,
43

right inferior,
201

prosopagnosia,
38

psychopath.
See
antisocial personality

race,
176
,
178
–
79
,
184
–
86

racism,
179
–
80
,
183
–
86

ratchet effect,
63
,
73

Raven, George,
21

reconstructive retrieval,
130
–
38

recovered memories,
140
–
41

religion,
211
–
14
,
230

repression,
122
–
23
,
139
–
41

reward system,
164
–
65

and the genome,
224
–
26

and health,
217
–
20

intrinsic versus extrinsic religiosity,
216
–
18

mystical states,
224

and science,
227
–
30

versus spirituality,
216

RNA,
25

Rothbart, Mary,
53

Rubin, David,
245

Ruhlen, Merritt,
86

self-concept,
118
–
20

self-control,
201
–
209

self-esteem,
120
–
21

self-talk.
See
interpreter; inner speech

semantics.
See
language

Seybold, Kevin,
217

single positron emission tomography (SPECT),
224

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter,
205

social intelligence,
29
,
31
,
66
,
196
,
248

Souberman, Ellen,
235

source monitoring,
138
–
40

spatial working memory.
See
working memory

spirituality,
31
,
211
–
12
,
216
–
17
,
222
–
23
.
See also
religion

substantia nigra,
164

Suddendorf, Thomas,
204

symbolic thought,
29
,
31
,
84
,
190

symbols,
177
–
78

syntax.
See
language

Tapscott, Don,
253

Taylor, Jill Bolte,
123

Taylor, Shelley,
120
–
21
,
173

telencephalon,
22

temporal-lobe epilepsy,
221
–
23

terror management theory,
214
–
16

thalamus,
23
,
27

theory of mind,
69

Thompson, Richard,
26

tip-of-the tongue state,
89

Tippett, Krista,
213

Tomasello, Michael,
62
,
68
,
73

Tulving, Endel,
125
,
129

Upper Paleolithic,
8
–
10
,
33
,
41
,
59
–
61
,
99
,
211
,
225
,
231
–
32
,
235

us versus them.
See
interpreter; in-group versus out-group