The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (188 page)

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Authors: Steven Pinker

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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)
 
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

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