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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)
(film)
cluster illusion
Cobden, Richard
Cochran, Gregory
Cockburn, J. S.
code of the streets;
see also
honor
see also
honor
cognitive dissonance
cognitive illusions, xxiii;
see also
availability heuristic; cluster illusion; conjunction fallacy; loss aversion; overconfidence; positive illusions; sunk-cost fallacy
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
gentle commerce
common knowledge
communality,
see
Community, ethic of
see
Community, ethic of
communal violence,
see
intercommunal conflict
see
intercommunal conflict
communism
collapse of
and genocide
ideology of
Community, ethic of
compartmentalization, moral
compassion
see also
empathy; sympathy
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
see also
moral sense
conscientious objection
consciousness
conscription,
see
military conscription
see
military conscription
conservatism
and intelligence
and morality
and treatment of animals
see also
liberalism, and conservatism
liberalism, and conservatism
Constantine, Emperor
Constitution, U.S.:
amendments:
Second
Eighth
Thirteenth
Nineteenth
design of
and gentle commerce
Cool Hand Luke
(film)
(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
see
anocracy; praetorian regimes
critical theory
Crockett, Davy
Cromwell, Oliver
Cromwell, Thomas
Cronin, Audrey
crowds, madness of
crucifixion
cruelty-free
, use of term
, 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
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
see also
self-control
deMause, Lloyd
democide,
see
genocide
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)
(DSM)
Diamond, Jared
Dickens, Charles
Dictator game
dictatorships;
see also
autocracy; totalitarianism
see also
autocracy; totalitarianism
Diderot, Denis
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