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The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

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by Robert Trivers


  Out-group associations

  Overconfidence

  aviation disasters and

  knowledge and

  narcissism and

  sex differences and

  war and

  Pain

  Palestine, Palestinians

  Panama

  Parasite load

  Parasite-host relationships

  Parental investment

  Parent-offspring relationships

  children, deception in and

  conflict in

  family and

  internal bifurcation and

  language and self-deception and

  manipulation and

  misrepresentation and

  Paternity, uncertain

  Paul XXIII, Pope

  Pentagon

  Pillar, Paul

  Pitch of voice

  Placebo effects

  neurophysiology and

  prayer and

  religion and

  self-deception, benefits of and

  Polytheism

  Positivity effect

  Power

  Prayer

  Predator-prey relationships

  Predictability

  Primates

  Prisoner’s dilemma

  Projection

  Protestantism

  Psychology

  avoiding and seeking information and

  biased memory and

  biasing and

  cognitive dissonance and

  denial and

  encoding and interpretation of information and

  immunology and

  prediction of future feelings and

  projection and

  psychoanalysis and

  psychological immune system and

  rationalization and biased reporting and

  self-deception, advantages of and

  self-deception, defensive function of

  social

  Qana massacre (1996)

  Racism

  Raiding

  Randomness

  Rationalization

  Reason

  Relatedness. See Family

  Relationships

  conflict in

  courtship and

  deception and

  evolution of

  low-love

  parasite-host

  parent-offspring

  prayer and

  predator-prey

  prophet, deification of and

  religion and

  sexual

  social

  Religion

  believer, status of and

  cognitive dissonance and

  disease and

  evolutionary theory of

  faith and reason and

  false historical narratives and

  health and

  immunology and

  in-group cooperation and

  language and

  liberation theology and

  mating systems and

  meditation and

  meme-centered view of

  miracles and

  parasites and diversity and

  power and

  prayer and

  splits in

  suicide attacks and

  truth and

  war and

  women, bias against and

  Reproduction

  Republican Party, Republicans

  Reputation

  Risk taking

  Rock, Chris

  Roman Catholicism. See Catholic Church, Catholicism

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russia

  Rwanda

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold

  Screw-ball

  Selective recall

  Self-deception

  aviation disasters and

  benefits of

  biological approach to

  biology and

  costs of

  daily life and

  deceit and

  deception of others and

  defensive function of

  definition of

  economics and

  evolution of

  evolutionary logic of

  false historical narratives and

  family and

  fighting

  group

  hallmarks of

  immunology and

  imposed

  language and

  natural selection and

  neurophysiology and

  as offensive strategy

  primary function of

  psychological approach to

  psychology and

  psychology of

  rationalization and

  religion and

  science of

  sex and

  sexual relationships and

  social sciences and

  space disasters and

  war and

  See also Deception

  Self-esteem

  Self-inflation

  Self-justification

  Self-opinion

  September 11

  Serotonin

  Sex

  extra-pair

  imposed self-deception and

  meaning of

  shame and

  See also Sex differences; Sexual relationships

  Sex differences

  brain and

  evolution of

  overconfidence and

  power and

  war and

  See also sex; Sexual relationships

  Sexual dysfunction

  Sexual orientation

  Sexual relationships

  betrayal and

  conflict in

  courtship and

  extra-pair sex and

  fantasy and

  female monthly cycle and

  female sexual interest and

  frequency dependence and

  marriage and

  men, homosexual tendencies in and

  murder and

  purpose of

  reproduction and

  sexual relationships and

  uncertain paternity and

  women, monthly cycle of and

  See also Sex; Sex differences

  Shame

  Silberglied, Robert

  Slavery

  Sleep

  Social psychology

  Social sciences

  biology and

  cultural anthropology and

  development of

  economics and

  justice and truth and

  psychology and

  Social theories

  biased

  false

  Somalia

  Soviet Union

  Space disasters

  Challenger disaster

  Columbia disaster

  Spam vs. anti-spam

  Spencer, Herbert

  Sports

  Squid

  Squirrels

  State Department, US

  Stick insects (Phasmatodea)

  Stock market

  Sudan

  Suicide attacks

  Suppression

  Syria, Syrians

  Terrorism

  Thrill seeking

  Time magazine

  Times Square bomber

  Torah

  Torture

  Trading

  Triumph of the American Nation (textbook)

  Truman, Harry

  Truth

  deception and

  denial of

  justice and

  religion and

  science and

  war and

  Turkish genocide

  UG. See Ultimatum game

  UK. See United Kingdom

  Ultimatum game (UG)

  UN. See United Nations

  Unconscious modules

  United Kingdom (UK)

  United Nations (UN)

  United States

  false his
torical narratives and

  foreign policy in

  safety approach of

  war and

  UNSCOM

  USAID

  Vatican II

  Vietnam War

  Virginia, University of

  Viruses

  War

  bombing and

  control and

  creating and walling off information and

  denial and

  derogation of others and

  evolution of

  false historical narratives and

  faulty decisions in

  “home field” advantage and

  Iraq war (2003) and

  language and

  modern

  moral superiority and

  natural selection and

  overconfidence and

  power and

  primitive

  rationalization and

  religion and

  risk taking and

  sex differences and

  small

  truth and

  Washington, George

  Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)

  West Africa

  West Bank

  Wetherbee, James

  White lies

  WMDs. See Weapons of mass destruction

  Wolf Man

  Wolfowitz, Paul

  Women

  deception, detection of and

  infidelity and

  monthly cycle of

  overconfidence and

  religion and

  sexual abuse of

  sexual interest of

  sexuality of

  war and

  Woods, Elin

  Woods, Tiger

  World Bank

  World War I

  World War II

  Zionism, Zionists See also Christian Zionism

  Copyright © 2011 by Robert Trivers

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Trivers, Robert.

  The folly of fools : the logic of deceit and self-deception in human life / Robert Trivers. p. cm.

  eISBN : 978-0-465-02805-4

  (e-book) 1. Self-deception. 2. Deception—Psychological aspects. 3. Deception—Social aspects. I. Title.

  BF697.5.S426T76 2011

  153.4—dc23

  2011028453

 

 

 


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