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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.

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