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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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by Steven Pinker

1960s

  trafficking

  War on Drugs

  Druids

  Dubner, Stephen

  Duck Soup (film)

  Duckworth, Angela

  dueling

  Dukakis, Michael

  Dulles, John Foster

  Dumas, Alexandre père

  Durham, Margaret

  Dworkin, Andrea

  Dylan, Bob

  dynasties, see Age of Dynasties; monarchy

  Eastern Europe

  abortions in

  and democracy

  and genocide

  violence against women in

  wars in

  East Timor

  Easy Rider (film)

  Eckhardt, William

  Eden, William

  education

  and civil war

  and democracy

  IQ tests

  method and content of

  ego depletion

  egotism

  Egypt, ancient

  Egypt, modern

  Eichmann, Adolf

  80:20 rule

  Eighty Years’ War

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Eisner, Manuel

  Elias, Norbert

  The Civilizing Process

  on medieval Europe

  on self-control

  Eliot, George

  Eliot, T. S.

  Elizabeth I, queen of England

  Ellickson, Robert

  El Salvador

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  emotions

  and armies

  and the brain

  and conflict resolution

  contagious

  control of

  and genocide

  in Middle Ages

  moralizing

  opponent process theory of

  postpartum

  and psychopathy

  see also anger; compassion; disgust; empathy; fear; forgiveness; guilt; sympathy

  empathy

  and the brain

  circle of

  and Civilizing Process

  and counterempathy

  dark side of

  and Humanitarian Revolution

  introduction of concept

  and literacy

  and Pacifist’s Dilemma

  parochial nature of

  and revenge modulation

  sadism deterred by

  use of term

  see also mentalizing; sympathy; theory of mind

  empathy-altruism hypothesis

  Emperor’s New Clothes

  endogenous opiates

  endogenous variables

  endorphins

  Enga people of New Guinea

  Engelsing, Rolf

  Engerman, Stanley

  England:

  anti-Catholic riots in

  aristocrats in

  Blitz in

  bobbies

  book production in

  capital punishment in

  Civilizing Process in

  Civil War

  domestic violence in

  Glorious Revolution (1688)

  homicide rates in

  income in

  interest rates in

  literacy in

  medieval

  punishments in

  witchcraft in

  see also Britain/United Kingdom

  Englis, Basil

  Enlightenment

  and autonomy

  and Civilizing Process

  counter-Enlightenment

  definition of

  and the Holocaust

  and humanitarian reform

  and Islam

  and women’s rights

  Enlightenment humanism

  environmental issues

  environment of evolutionary adaptedness

  Equality Matching

  Equal Rights Amendment

  Erasmus, Desiderius

  Ericksen, Karen

  Eritrean-Ethiopian war

  Ervin, Sam

  Escalation game; see also War of Attrition game

  escalator of reason

  Esperanto

  essentialism, psychological

  E.T. (film)

  Ethical Marine Warrior

  ethnic cleansing

  ethnic conflict

  ethnic riots, deadly; see also pogroms

  etiquette

  in medieval times

  and self-control

  eunuchs

  euphemism

  Europe:

  antiwar views in

  armed forces of

  capital punishment in

  centralized monarchies in

  colonies of

  dark ages in

  democracy in

  early modern

  etiquette in

  explorers from

  homicide rates in

  interstate wars in Cold War

  literacy in

  medieval

  national borders in

  states of

  terrorism in

  20th-century

  witchcraft in

  world wars in

  European Union

  euthanasia

  Evers, Medgar

  evil:

  banality of

  definition of

  and the Devil

  effects of

  and moral sense

  myth of pure

  evolution

  adaptation

  biological

  cannibalism in

  competition

  in cultural change

  dominance in

  and game theory

  and heritability

  of human societies

  natural selection

  of nonviolence

  and primate behavior

  recent

  of reciprocal altruism

  survival

  uses of term

  evolutionary psychology:

  analysis of children and parents

  analysis of consciousness

  analysis of cooperation

  analysis of feeding and disgust

  analysis of group conflict

  analysis of revenge and justice

  analysis of self-deception

  analysis of sexuality

  analysis of violence

  environment of evolutionary adaptedness

  and international relations

  science of

  excess deaths

  exchange relationships

  executions, see capital punishment

  exogenous variables

  Expanding Circle, theory of

  face-to-face violence

  Fagen, Michael

  fairness; see also altruism, reciprocal; Autonomy, ethic of; Equality Matching

  Falkenrath, Richard

  Falkland Islands

  FALN

  false-consensus effect

  family structures

  famine

  Fantasticks, The (musical)

  Farrakhan, Louis

  fascism

  Fattah, Khaled

  FBI

  fear:

  and the brain

  and competition

  as “diffidence,”

  and genocide

  group-against-group

  psychology of

  and terrorism

  Fearon, James

  Fechner’s law, applied to lives; see also statistical lives

  Federalist Papers

  Fehr, Ernst

  Feingold, David

  Feller, William

  females, see women

  feminization

  Fest, Joachim

  Festinger, Leon

  feudal system

  fiction

  Fierke, K. M.

  fight-or-flight response

  filicides

  Fine Madness, A (film)

  Finkelhor, David

  Fis
her, David Hackett

  fishing

  Fiske, Alan

  fisticuffs; see also face-to-face violence

  Flavius Josephus

  flogging

  Flynn, James

  Flynn Effect

  Fogel, Robert

  forgiveness

  formal operations, Piagetian stage

  Fortna, Virginia Page

  forward panic (rampage)

  fossil hominids

  Fox, James Alan

  France:

  Albigensian Crusade

  and Algeria

  book production in

  colonies of

  government in

  as great power

  homicides in

  romantic militarism in

  slavery abolished in

  torture in

  and Vietnam

  wars fought in

  witch-hunters in

  Franco-Prussian War

  Frank, Anne

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke

  freakonomics theory of crime decline

  free market; see also commerce; gentle commerce; trade, international

  free-rider problem

  free speech

  Free the Slaves (organization)

  French Revolution

  Freud, Sigmund

  friendship

  Frith, Chris

  Fukuyama, Francis

  Gächter, Simon

  Gacy, John Wayne

  Gaddis, John

  Gage, Phineas

  Galen

  Galileo Galilei

  Galois, Évariste

  gambler’s fallacy

  gambling, and violence

  game theory; see also coordination games; Dictator game; Escalation game; Pacifist’s Dilemma; positive-sum games; Prisoner’s Dilemma; Public Goods game; Tragedy of the Commons; Trust game; Ultimatum game; War of Attrition game; zero-sum games

  Gandhi, Indira

  Gandhi, Mohandas K.

  Gandhi, Rajmohan

  Gangs of New York (film)

  Garrard, Graeme

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  Garton Ash, Timothy

  Garwin, Richard

  Gat, Azar

  gay rights, see homosexuality

  General Social Survey

  generation gap

  Generation X,

  genes

  and aggression

  feedback loops of

  mutations in

  Warrior Gene theory

  Geneva Conventions

  Genghis Khan

  genocide

  age of

  Albigensian Crusade

  and categorization

  and commerce

  as crimes against humanity

  death rates in

  division of labor in

  Holocaust

  and Enlightenment

  and evil

  and Hitler

  long-term trends

  and ideology

  of Native Americans

  Nazism

  participation in

  and political crises

  psychology of

  and rape

  risk factors

  survivors of

  word coined for

  Genovese, Jeremy

  Genovese, Kitty

  gentle commerce

  as antiwar measure

  and Civilizing Process

  and cooperation

  introduction of concept

  and Kant

  and Leviathan

  and Liberal Peace

  and Pacifist’s Dilemma

  George, Saint

  Georgia (Asia)

  Georgia (U.S.), homicides in

  Gerges, Fawaz

  German Peace Society

  Germany:

  Berlin Wall

  borders of

  and empire

  genocide in; see also Holocaust

  homicides in

  militarism in

  Nazi Party in, see Nazism

  pacifism in

  and poison gas

  unification

  wars fought in

  witch-hunters in

  and world wars

  Geronimo

  Gigerenzer, Gerd

  Gilbert, Daniel

  Gilles de Rais

  Gilligan, Carol

  Gilmore commission

  Gimme Shelter (documentary)

  Ginges, Jeremy

  Gini coefficient

  Giuliani, Rudy

  Glaeser, Edward

  Gleason, Jackie

  Gleditsch, Kristian

  Gleditsch, Nils Petter

  globalization; see also trade, international

  Global Terrorism Database

  Global Village

  Global Zero

  glory, concept of

  Glover, Jonathan

  glucose

  God; see also religion

  Godfather, The (film)

  Godwin, William

  Goetz, Bernhard

  Goffman, Erving

  Golden Arches theory

  Golden Rule

  Goldhagen, Daniel

  Goldstein, Joshua

  Goldwater, Barry

  Gone With the Wind (film)

  Goodall, Jane

  Goodman, Andrew

  Goodman, Paul

  Goodwin, Jan

  Gopnik, Adam

 

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