The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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by Steven Pinker


  Canada

  domestic violence in

  homicides in

  military forces in

  nationalism in Québec

  terrorism in

  violence in

  cannibalism

  Capitalist Peace

  capital punishment

  Caplan, Bryan

  Carey, John

  Carlin, George

  Carlsmith, Kevin

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carnot, Sadi

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carthage vs. Rome

  Caspi, Avshalom

  Castellio, Sebastian

  cat, Rage circuit of

  catecholamines; see also dopamine; MAO-A; norepinephrine; serotonin

  categorical imperative

  categorization

  Cathars

  Catherine, Saint

  Cederman, Lars-Erik

  Celsus

  Centola, Damon

  Central African Empire

  Chabris, Christopher

  Chad

  Chagnon, Napoleon

  Chalk, Frank

  Chambri people

  chance, see randomness

  Chaney, James

  Chaplin, Charlie

  chariots

  Charles I, king of England

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Chechnya

  Chekhov, Anton

  chemical weapons

  Cheney, Dick

  chiefdoms

  children:

  abuse and neglect of

  adopted

  bullying of

  child labor

  corporal punishment of

  development of

  education of

  fatherless

  infanticide

  overprotecting

  parent-offspring conflict

  peer environment of

  rights of

  risk of kidnapping

  sacralization of

  sacrifice

  socialization of

  spanking

  survival of

  violence against

  violence by

  Chile

  chimpanzees

  China:

  autocracy of

  and commerce

  conflicts in

  Cultural Revolution

  expansionist

  female infanticide in

  genocide in

  Great Leap Forward

  and great powers

  historical scholarship in

  homicide rates in

  immigrants from

  knives in

  one-child policy in

  Opium Wars

  Taiping Rebellion

  U.S. comity with

  and Vietnam

  warlord era

  and Warrior Gene

  Chirot, Daniel

  chivalry

  Chivington, John

  Churchill, Winston

  CIA, covert operations of

  cities:

  cosmopolitan

  and health

  population of

  rise of

  and suburbs

  violence in

  civil defense

  civilization

  emergence of

  civilizing offensive

  Civilizing Process

  commerce

  decivilization in 1960s,

  and Enlightenment

  etiquette

  European homicide decline

  and Humanitarian Revolution

  introduction of concept

  and Leviathan

  in medieval Europe

  recivilization in 1990s,

  reduction in frequency of war

  and Rights Revolutions

  and self-control

  and sexuality

  and social class

  in U.S.

  around the world

  civil rights

  and Global Village

  and homosexuality

  and racist attitudes

  voting rights

  see also African Americans

  Civil Rights Acts (1964; 1968)

  civil war

  in anocracies

  costs of

  and decolonization

  and democracy

  in developing world

  and education

  and ethnicity

  and great powers

  and ideology

  and inept government

  and national borders

  negotiated settlements

  and poverty

  and psychopathy

  and religion

  and trade

  and young men

  Civil War, U.S.

  death toll in

  Clark, Gregory

  clash of civilizations

  Clauset, Aaron

  Clausewitz, Karl von

  Clay, Henry

  Cleaver, Eldridge

  Cleveland, Robert Nasruk

  climate change

  Clinton, Bill

  Clockwork Orange, A (film)

  cluster illusion

  Cobden, Richard

  Cochran, Gregory

  Cockburn, J. S.

  code of the streets; see also honor

  cognitive dissonance

  cognitive illusions, xxiii; see also availability heuristic; cluster illusion; conjunction fallacy; loss aversion; overconfidence; positive illusions; sunk-cost fallacy

  Cohen, Dov

  Cohen, Jonathan

  Cold War

  end of

  interstate wars in Europe

  mutually assured destruction

  proxy wars

  superpower confrontations

  Cole, Michael

  Collier, Paul

  Collins, Randall

  Colombia

  Columbine High School

  commerce:

  Christian ideology vs.

  cooperation in

  and genocide

  growth of

  international trade

  and money

  protectionist tariffs

  and transportation

  see also gentle commerce

  common knowledge

  communality, see Community, ethic of

  communal violence, see intercommunal conflict

  communism

  collapse of

  and genocide

  ideology of

  Community, ethic of

  compartmentalization, moral

  compassion see also empathy; sympathy

  complex systems, science of

  Concert of Europe

  concrete operations, Piagetian stage

  Conflict Catalog

  conformity

  Congo, Democratic Republic of (DRC)

  Congo Free State

  conjunction fallacy

  conquest

  Conquest, Robert

  Conrad, Joseph

  conscience; see also moral sense

  conscientious objection

  consciousness

  conscription, see military conscription

  conservatism

  and intelligence

  and morality

  and treatment of animals

  see also liberalism, and conservatism

  Constantine, Emperor

  Constitution, U.S.:

  amendments:

  Second

  Eighth

  Thirteenth

  Nineteenth

  design of

  and gentle commerce

  Cool Hand Luke (film)

  Cooney, Mark

  cooperation

  in commerce

  evolution of

  and intelligence

  norms of

  in Prisoner’s Dilemma games

  and Tragedy of the Commons

  coordination games

  corporal punishment:

  of children

  and torture

  Correlates
of War Project

  Cosmides, Leda

  cosmopolitanism

  and democracy

  and end of Cold War

  vs. genocidal ideologies

  introduction to concept

  and liberalism

  vs. macho dominance

  opposition to

  and Rights Revolutions

  costly signaling

  counter-Enlightenment

  Country Joe and the Fish

  Coupland, Reginald

  coups d’état

  Courtwright, David

  Cousins, Norman

  Cramb, J. A.

  crappy governments, see anocracy; praetorian regimes

  critical theory

  Crockett, Davy

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cromwell, Thomas

  Cronin, Audrey

  crowds, madness of

  crucifixion

  cruelty-free, use of term

  Crusades

  Cuban Missile Crisis

  Curry, Ann

  cuteness, and empathy

  Czechoslovakia

  Dahmer, Jeffrey

  Daltrey, Roger

  Daly, Martin

  Damasio, Antonio

  Dana, Richard Henry

  Darfur

  Darley, John

  Darnton, Robert

  Darrow, Clarence

  Darwin, Charles

  The Descent of Man

  The Origin of Species

  David, King

  Davies, Norman

  Dawkins, Richard

  Dayak people of Borneo

  Dean, Howard

  Deary, Ian

  death penalty, see capital punishment

  debt bondage

  Decety, Jean

  Declaration of Independence, U.S.

  Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, France

  decolonization

  defense mechanisms

  dehumanization

  deism

  delay of gratification; see also self-control

  deMause, Lloyd

  democide, see genocide

  democracy

  and capitalism

  checks and balances in

  and civil war

  constitutional government

  definition of

  and education

  emergence of

  free speech in

  and intelligence

  and Kantian triangle

  liberal

  meanings of

  and 1960s decivilization process

  and peace

  and reasoning

  and Rights Revolutions

  separation of powers in

  spread of

  and urbanization

  Democratic Peace theory

  demonization

  den Boer, Andrea

  dependency theorists

  depression, medication for

  Dershowitz, Alan

  Descartes, René

  despotism

  DeSteno, David

  deterrence

  Deutch, John

  Deuteronomy, Book of

  developing world

  anarchy in

  childhood deaths in

  democracy in

  economic growth in

  famine and disease

  homicide rates in

  liberation movements in

  Marxism in

  and plunder

  and poverty

  violence following decolonization

  warfare in

  Dhlakama, Afonso

  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

  Diamond, Jared

  Dickens, Charles

  Dictator game

  dictatorships; see also autocracy; totalitarianism

  Diderot, Denis

  Diels, Janie

  DiIulio, John

  Dionysian vs. Apollonian cultures

  discounting, temporal; see also self-control

  discrimination

  disgust

  Disney, Walt

  distress

  and sympathy-altruism hypothesis

  District of Columbia, homicides in

  Divinity, ethic of; see also disgust; Purity, ethic of

  Djilas, Milovan

  DNA testing

  Dodds, Graham

  dodgeball

  domestic violence

  outside U.S.

  dominance

  and anarchy

  and the brain

  as cause of war

  circuit in brain

  gender differences in

  group (tribalism)

  hierarchies of

  and information

  introduction of concept

  and nationalism

  dominance (cont.)

  and sadism

  and self-esteem

  and social identity

  as zero-sum game

  dominance hierarchy

  Dominica

  Donohue, John

  Doomsday Clock

  dopamine

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor

  Douglas, William O.

  Douglass, Frederick

  Dover Doctrine

  Dowd, Maureen

  Doyle, Arthur Conan

  Draco

  Draize procedure

  drones

  drugs:

  decriminalization of

 

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