The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (198 page)
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Rhee, Soo Hyun
Ricard, Samuel
Rich, Frank
Richards, Keith
Richardson, Lewis Fry
on magnitude of wars
on probability
on randomness
on timing of wars
Richardson, Samuel
Rifkin, Jeremy
rights, circle of;
see also
Expanding Circle, theory of; human rights
see also
Expanding Circle, theory of; human rights
Rights Revolutions
animal rights
children’s rights
civil rights
and Enlightenment humanism
gay rights
and Humanitarian Revolution
introduction of concept
and technologies
use of terms
women’s rights
Rindermann, Heiner
risk perception,
see
fear
see
fear
Rivers, Eugene
Rizzolatti, Giacomo
Robbers Cave study
Roberts, Adam
Robespierre, Maximilien
Robinson, Paul
robots
rock music
Rockwell, Norman
Roe v. Wade
Rolling Stones
Roman Empire
animals in
Carthage vs.
Colosseum in
crucifixion in
fall of
gladiators in
human life devalued in
infanticide in
Roman law
Roman Republic, slavery in
Romanticism
romantic militarism
romantic nationalism
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosenau, James
Rosenbaum, Ron
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
Rostand, Edmond,
Les Romantesques
Les Romantesques
Rostow, Elspeth
Roth, Randolph
Rothstein, Richard
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rozin, Paul
Rubin, Jerry
Rule of Law measure
Rummel, Rudolf J.
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rush, Benjamin
Rushdie, Salman
Rusk, Dean
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Russett, Bruce
Russia:
capital punishment in
civil war in
and Cold War,
see
USSR
see
USSR
compulsory military service in
crime in
peasant uprisings in
retaliation in
terrorism in
Time of Troubles
and World War I
Russian Revolution
Rwanda
Ryder, Norman
Saakashvili, Mikheil
sacred values
Sadat, Anwar
Sade, Marquis de
sadism
introduction of concept
psychology of
by serial killers
and torture
Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Scott
Sageman, Marc
Sailer, Steven
Saint Pierre, Abbé de
Salehyan, Idean
Salem witch trials
Salmon, Catherine
Sampson, Robert
Samuel
Sand Creek Massacre
Santayana, George
Sassoon, Siegfried
SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)
satire
Saudi Arabia
Saul, King
Saunders, J. J.
savage,
use of term
use of term
Saxe, Rebecca
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Scandinavia
homicides in
Scarpa, Angela
schadenfreude;
see also
sadism
see also
sadism
Schama, Simon
Schechter, Harold
Schell, Jonathan
Schelling, Friedrich
Schelling, Thomas
schools:
corporal punishment in
education in
weapons in
see also
education
education
Schwager, Raymund
Schweitzer, Albert
Schwerner, Michael
science, value system of
scientific reasoning;
see also
modernity
see also
modernity
Scientific Revolution
Scotland
Scott, Sir Walter
Scully, Diana
Seabrook, John
security dilemma;
see also
Hobbesian trap
see also
Hobbesian trap
Seeking system
Seinfeld, Jerry
self-control
and Civilizing Process
and counterculture
and crime
and ego depletion
and etiquette
and experience
fatigue of
heritability of
and human brain
and intelligence
introduction of concept
language of
measures of
and reason
sexual
strategies of
self-deception
self-determination
self-domestication
self-esteem
self-help justice
self-organized criticality
self-serving biases
Seligman, Martin
Semai people
sensation seeking;
see also
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
see also
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
September 11 attacks
Serbia
serial killers
serotonin
Servetus, Michael
Sesame Street
(TV)
(TV)
Seven Years’ War
sexism;
see also
women, attitudes toward; women, male control of; women, as property; women, rights of
see also
women, attitudes toward; women, male control of; women, as property; women, rights of
sex ratio
sexual abuse
sexual jealousy
sexual revolution
sexual sadism
sexual selection, theory of
sexual self-control
Shaka (Zulu)
Shakespeare, William
Falstaff
Henry IV, Part I,
Henry V,
King Lear
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
Portia
Shylock
Titus Andronicus
Shasta County, California, ranchers
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheehan, James
Shen, Francis X.
Shepard, Matthew
Shergill, Sukhwinder
Sherriff, R. C.
Shikaki, Khalil
Shotland, Lance
Shultz, George
Shweder, Richard
Sidanius, Jim
siege,
use of term
use of term
Silence of the Lambs, The
(film)
(film)
Simon, Paul
Simon, Robert
Simonton, Dean
Singapore
Singer, Peter:
Animal Liberation
The Expanding Circle
Singer, Tania
sins, seven deadly
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
six degrees of separation
Skenazy, Lenore
skepticism
slavery
abolition of
in American South
death toll of
and debt bondage
first-person accounts of
history of
human trafficking
and Islam
and religion
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