The Folly of Fools (60 page)

Anterior cingulated cortex (ACC)

Anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC)

Anthropology, cultural

Anti-semitism

Ants

Apes

aPFC.
See
Anterior prefrontal cortex

Arabs

Argentina

Armenian genocide

Athletics

Australia

Automobile industry

Aviation disasters

Aeroflot Flight 593

Air Florida Flight 90

American Eagle Flight 4184

causes of

EgyptAir Flight 990

FAA response to

Gol Flight 1907

ice and

overconfidence and

pilot error and

September 11 and

tombstone technology and

Belgium

Beneffectance

Berlin Wall

Betrayal

Bible

Bin Laden, Osama

Biology

camouflage and

coevolutionary struggle and

death and near-death acts and

deception, consciousness of and

deception and anger and

false alarm calls and

female mimicry and

frequency dependence and

game theory and

intelligence and deception and

parasite-host relationships and

predator-prey relationships and

randomness and

religion and

Birds

Black Panthers

Black Plague

Blair, Tony

Blick, Hans

Bolivia

Bombing

Brain

happiness and

immune system and

of monkeys and apes

right vs. left

sex differences and

sleep, importance of and

Brazil

Breast cancer

Brood parasitism

Bush, George W.

Butterflies

Caching

California

Cambodia

Cambodians

Canada

Cancer cells

Capital punishment

Catholic Church, Catholicism

Central America

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Challenger
disaster

Children

cognitive dissonance in

deception in

disclosing trauma and

marital conflict and

name-letter effect and

parental investment and

parent-offspring relationship and

sexual abuse of

Chile

Chimpanzees

China

Chinese

Chomsky, Noam

Christian Zionism
See also
Zionism, Zionists

Christianity

Churchill, Winston

CIA.
See
Central Intelligence Agency

Civil War, US

Clarke, Richard

Class

Clinton, Bill

Coevolutionary struggle

deceiver and deceived and

frequency dependence and

intelligence and

parasite-host relationships and

predator-prey relationships and

Cognitive dissonance

in children

in monkeys

rationalization and

religion and

self-justification and

social effects of reduction of

Cognitive load

Colombia

Colonialism

Columbia
disaster

Columbus, Christopher

Compulsion

Con artists

Congo

Consciousness

deception and

knowledge and

language and

memory and

neurophysiology and

Contras

Control

Counselors, counseling

Courtship

Crime

Cromwell, Oliver

Cuba

Cultural anthropology

Daily life

con artists and

deceiving up and dummying down and

drugs and

face-ism and

humor and laughter and

lie-detector tests and

metaphors, use of in

name-letter effect and

sex differences in overconfidence and

spam vs. anti-spam and

stock market trading and

vulnerability to manipulation and

Darwin, Charles

Death

Deceit.
See
Deception; Self-deception

Deceived

Deceiver

Deception

anger and

behavioral

children and

cognitive load and

consciousness of

control and

costs of

denial and

detection of

economics and

evolutionary approach to

fantasy and

game theory and

general attributes of

intelligence and

natural selection and

in nature

nervousness and

nonverbal forms of

pervasiveness of

propagation of

selves

truth and

unconscious

See also
Self-deception

Defense Department, US

Defense mechanisms

Delta Airlines

Denial

aggression and

of deception

false historical narratives and

homosexuality and

projection and

as self-reinforcing

truth and

war and

Depression

Derogation of others

Determinism

Disassociation

Discrimination

Disease

Dishonesty.
See
Deception; Self-deception

Displacement activities

Divorce

DLPFC.
See
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Dominance

Dominican Republic

Dopamine

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)

Drugs

Dummying up

Eban, Abba

Economics

Egypt

EgyptAir Flight 990

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight

El Salvador

England

Ethnic cleansing

Ethnicity

Euphemism treadmill

Evolution

deception and

happiness, regulation of and

of intelligence

natural selection and

of religion

self-deception and

of sex differences

of sexes

of social relationships

of war

FAA.
See
Federal Aviation Administration

Face-ism

Faith

False alarm calls

False confessions

False historical narratives

Amerindians, eradication of

counterattack and

denial and

expansion at other’s expense and

history textbooks and

Israel and

Japanese history and

purpose of

rationalization and

religion and

Turkish genocide and

United States and

war and

Zionism and

False internal narratives

False personal narratives

Family

children, deception in and

extreme abuse and

genetic conflict and

genetic relatedness and

genomic imprinting and

inbreeding and

internal conflict in

marital conflict and

natural selection and

parent-offspring conflict and

parent-offspring relationship and

self-deception and

Fantasy

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Females.
See
Women

Feynman, Richard

Finland

Flattery

Founding Fathers

Frequency dependence

Freud, Sigmund

Friendship

From Time Immemorial
(Peters)

Future of Iraq project (State Department)

Galvanic skin response (GSR)

Game theory

Garner, Jay

Gates, Bill

Gaza

Genocide

Genomic imprinting

God

Golan Heights

Good Samaritan

Gorillas

GSR.
See
Galvanic skin response

Guatemala

Guilt

Haiti

Hamas

Happiness

Harrison, Benjamin

Harrison, William Henry

Hezbollah

History.
See
False historical narratives

Hitler, Adolf

HIV

Holocaust

Homicide

Homosexuality

Humor

Hussein, Saddam

Hypnosis

Immunology, immune system

brain and

cost of

happiness and

homosexuality and denial and

humor and laughter and

marriage and

music and

positive affect and

positivity in old age and

psychology and

religion and

sleep, importance of and

trade-offs and

writing about trauma and

Inbreeding

India

In-group associations

Intelligence

Investment

Iran

Iraq war (2003)

Iraq Working Group

Islam

Israel

anti-Semitism and

Arab deceit and self-deception and

Arabs, flight of and

Arabs, voluntary flight of and

Armenian genocide and

Christian Zionism and

false historical narratives and

founding of state of

Gaza, assault on of

Lebanon, assault on by

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Michael

Jamaica

Japan

Japanese

Japanese-Americans

Jefferson, Thomas

Jesus

Jews

Jews-4-Peace

Jihad

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Josiah, King

Judaism

Justice

Justice in Palestine

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, John F., Jr.