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INDEX
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Abilene paradox
abolition of capital punishment
abolition of chemical weapons
abolition of corporal punishment
abolition of nuclear weapons
abolition of slavery
abolition of torture
abortion
and crime decline
and infanticide
sex-selective
Abraham
Abrahms, Max
abstraction
Abu Ghraib prison
Achilles
Adams, John
adolescence:
and crime
male, see young men
peer influence in
adoption studies
adrenaline
affirmative action
Afghanistan
Soviet invasion of
U.S. war in
Africa
independence in
wars in
African Americans:
civil rights of
community actions of
family lives of
and hate crimes
homicide rates of
lynching of
Million Man March
and 1960s decivilization
in prison
racist views of
segregation of
as slaves
violence by
African Union
Against Our Will (Brownmiller)
Agamemnon
Age of Dynasties
Age of Ideology
Age of Nationalism
age of psychology
Age of Reason
Age of Religions
Age of Sovereignty
Age of Terror
aggression:
and the brain
control of
forward panic (rampage)
heritability of
logic of
and pain
triggers of
agriculture:
and animals
emergence of
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Akey, Joshua
Albania
Albigensian Crusade; see also Cathars
alcohol
Alexander II, Czar
Alfonzo, Juan Pérez
Algeria
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Al-Jazeera
Allen, Woody
Allison, Graham
All Quiet on the Western Front (film)
Alm, Steven
al-Odah, Salman
Al Qaeda
al-Sadr, Muqtada
Al Sharif, Sayyid Imam (Dr. Fadl)
Altamont Festival
Alter, Karen
altruism:
biological
empathy-altruism hypothesis
nepotistic
reciprocal
sympathy-altruism hypothesis
uses of term
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
Amazons
American Humane Association
Amin
Amnesty International
Amsterdam
Anabaptists
anarchy
and dominance
and feuding
and genocide
and realism
and self-help justice
and terrorism
Andaman Islanders
Andersen, Hans Christian
Andrew, Saint
Angell, Norman
anger; see also Rage circuit
Angier, Natalie
animals:
blood sports
domesticated
eating meat of
factory farms
fishing
hunting
in movies
in research
rights of
anocracy (semidemocracy)
“anthropologists of peace,”
antisocial personality disorder; see also psychopaths
antiwar movements; see also pacifism
apartheid
Apollonian vs. Dionysian cultures
apologies
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Arafat, Yasir
archaeology
Archer, John
Archimedes
Ardipithecus ramidus
Arendt, Hannah
Argentina
aristocrats
deaths from violence
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Aristotle
armed forces:
as band of brothers
conscription of
effectiveness of
Ethical Marine Warrior
file closers
mercenary
military revolution
reluctance to shoot
size of
willingness to die
Armenians, genocide of
Aronson, Elliot
Asal, Victor
Asch, Solomon
Ash-Sheikh, Abdulaziz
Asia:
abortion in
female infanticide in
historiography in
homicide rates in
hunter-gatherers in
legal discrimination in
massacres in
New Peace in
spanking in
violence against animals in
violence against women in
wars in
assassinations; see also regicide
Astell, Mary
Athens, democracy in
Atlas, Charles
Atran, Scott
atrocities, twenty worst in history
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Atwood, Brian
Augustine, Saint
Australia
domestic violence in
homicide in
peace imposed in New Guinea
penal colony
warfare among aborigines
australopithecenes
Austria-Hungary
autarky; see also trade, international
Authority Ranking
autocracy
and Age of Nationalism
and democide
Islamic
punishment in
and the social dilemma
autonomic nervous system
Autonomy, ethic of
availability heuristic
Axelrod, Robert
Aztecs
baby boomers:
crime among
influence of television on
and 1960s counterculture
Bacon, Francis
balance of power
balance of terror
Bales, Kevin
Bandura, Albert
Bangladesh
Barbara, Saint
Barth, Karl
Batson, Daniel
Baumeister, Roy
Evil
and self-control
Bays, Paul
Beatles
Beccaria, Cesare
On Crimes and Punishments
Beirut, U.S. servicemen bombed in
Belarus
Belgium
Bell, David
Bell, Derrick
bell curve, see normal distribution
Belloc, Hillaire
Benedict, Ruth, Patterns of Culture
Bentham, Jeremy
Berlin, Isaiah
Berlin Wall
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von
Betzig, Laura
> Bhagavad-Gita
Bhutto, Benazir
Bible:
capital punishment in
debt bondage in
historical analysis of
and homophobia
human sacrifice in
and legislation
New Testament
Old Testament
popularity of
slavery in
Big Parade, The (film)
Bill of Rights, U.S.
bin Laden, Osama
bioethics
biological weapons
Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing
birthday paradox
Black, Donald
Black Death
Blackwell, Aaron
Blair, Tony
blank slate
blasphemy
blood and soil
blood feuds; see also revenge
blood libel
blood money (wergild)
blood sports
Bloom, Paul
Bluebeard
bobbies
Bobo, Lawrence
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel
Boleyn, Anne
bonobos (pygmy chimps)
book production
Boone, Daniel
Borat (film)
borderline personality disorder
border wars; see also territory
Bosnia
Boston
crime in
homicides in
police
Public Library
revolutionary
and social identity
TenPoint coalition
Boston Strangler
Bradford, William
brain
and aggression
amygdala
anterior cingulate cortex
cerebral cortex
cerebrum
Dominance circuit
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
and empathy
Fear circuit
forebrain
frontal lobes
gray matter
hindbrain
hypothalamus
insula
Intermale Aggression circuit, see brain, Dominance circuit
limbic system
maturation of
midbrain
motor strip
orbital cortex
damage to
and emotion
and empathy
and Equality Matching
and psychopathy
and revenge
and self-control
and violence
orbitofrontal cortex, see brain, orbital cortex
parietal lobes
periaqueductal gray
prefrontal cortex; see also brain, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; brain, frontal
brain (cont.) lobes; brain, orbital cortex; brain, ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Rage circuit
rat
Seeking circuit; see also striatum
and self-control
striatum, ventral
Sylvian fissure
temporoparietal junction
ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Brazil
Brecke, Peter
Bridges, Ruby Nell
Bright, John
Brisson, Jacques-Pierre
Britain/United Kingdom
animal rights in
colonies of
and Declaration of Human Rights
as great power
and homophobia
and IQ
and Long Peace
opium wars
political apologies by
and Roman Empire
slave trade
violence in
in war
see also England; Ireland; Scotland; Wales
British Empire
Broca, Paul
Broken Windows theory
Bronner, Ethan
Brooke, Rupert
Brooks, David
Brooks, Mel
Brophy, Brigid
Brown, Donald
Brown, Harold
Brown, Jeffrey
Browning, Christopher
Brownmiller, Susan
Broyles, William
Bruno, Giordano
Brunswick, Duke of
Buckley, William
Buhaug, Halvard
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
bullfighting
bullying
Bundy, Ted
Buñuel, Luis
Burger, Jerry
Burke, Edmund
Burks, Stephen
Burr, Aaron
Burundi, genocide in
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Buss, David
Byrd, James, Jr.
bystander apathy
“cads vs. dads,”
Cairns, Warwick
Calas, Jean
California:
animal rights in
genocide of Native Americans
Gold Rush
homicides in
self-esteem task force
“Three Strikes and You’re Out” law
violence among Native Americans
Caligula, Emperor
Calvin, John
Cambodia
Campbell, Martha
Camp David accords (2000)
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