The Folly of Fools (61 page)

Kenya

Kerry, John

Khmer Rouge

Kinship theory

Kissinger, Henry

Koran

Korea Airlines

Korean War

Koreans

Land of Promise
(textbook)

Language

deceit and

euphemism treadmill and

metaphors and

name-letter effect and

parental investment and

religion and

self-deception and

unconscious use of

war and

Laos

Laotians

Laughter

Lebanese

Lebanon

Liberation theology

Lie-detector tests

Lord’s Prayer

Madoff, Bernie

Males.
See
Men

Manifest destiny

Marriage

Marshall, John

Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC)

Meditation

Melville, Herman

Memory

abuse and

biased

construction of false

distortions of

false

readjustment of

suppression of

Men

betrayal, response to of

celibacy and

deception, detection of and

female mimicry and

female sexual interest and

homosexual tendencies in

overconfidence and

war and

Metaphors

Mexico

Mimicry

Monkeys

Monotheism

Monroe Doctrine

Moral superiority

Morality

MPFC.
See
Medial prefrontal cortex

Ms.
magazine

Mubarak, Hosni

Muhammad

Murder

Music

Muslim Brotherhood

Napoleon

Narcissism, narcissists

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Challenger
disaster and

Columbia
disaster and

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Nationalism

Natural selection

deception and

evolution and

family and

randomness and

self-deception and

social relationships and

war and

Nature.
See
Biology

Neurophysiology

conscious knowledge and

consciousness and

imposed self-deception and

improving deception through neural inhibition and

placebo effect and

psychological immune system and

religion and health and

right vs. left brain and

self-esteem, implicit vs. explicit and

thought suppression and

unconscious self-recognition and

Newton, Huey

Nicaragua

Nixon, Richard

Norway

Novelty

NTSB.
See
National Transportation Safety Board

Nuclear war

Obama, Barack

Old Testament

Optimism

Out-group associations

Overconfidence

aviation disasters and

knowledge and

narcissism and

sex differences and

war and

Pain

Palestine, Palestinians

Panama

Parasite load

Parasite-host relationships

Parental investment

Parent-offspring relationships

children, deception in and

conflict in

family and

internal bifurcation and

language and self-deception and

manipulation and

misrepresentation and

Paternity, uncertain

Paul XXIII, Pope

Pentagon

Pillar, Paul

Pitch of voice

Placebo effects

neurophysiology and

prayer and

religion and

self-deception, benefits of and

Polytheism

Positivity effect

Power

Prayer

Predator-prey relationships

Predictability

Primates

Prisoner’s dilemma

Projection

Protestantism

Psychology

avoiding and seeking information and

biased memory and

biasing and

cognitive dissonance and

denial and

encoding and interpretation of information and

immunology and

prediction of future feelings and

projection and

psychoanalysis and

psychological immune system and

rationalization and biased reporting and

self-deception, advantages of and

self-deception, defensive function of

social

Qana massacre (1996)

Racism

Raiding

Randomness

Rationalization

Reason

Relatedness.
See
Family

Relationships

conflict in

courtship and

deception and

evolution of

low-love

parasite-host

parent-offspring

prayer and

predator-prey

prophet, deification of and

religion and

sexual

social

Religion

believer, status of and

cognitive dissonance and

disease and

evolutionary theory of

faith and reason and

false historical narratives and

health and

immunology and

in-group cooperation and

language and

liberation theology and

mating systems and

meditation and

meme-centered view of

miracles and

parasites and diversity and

power and

prayer and

splits in

suicide attacks and

truth and

war and

women, bias against and

Reproduction

Republican Party, Republicans

Reputation

Risk taking

Rock, Chris

Roman Catholicism.
See
Catholic Church, Catholicism

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russia

Rwanda

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Screw-ball

Selective recall

Self-deception

aviation disasters and

benefits of

biological approach to

biology and

costs of

daily life and

deceit and

deception of others and

defensive function of

definition of

economics and

evolution of

evolutionary logic of

false historical narratives and

family and

fighting

group

hallmarks of

immunology and

imposed

language and

natural selection and

neurophysiology and

as offensive strategy

primary function of

psychological approach to

psychology and

psychology of

rationalization and

religion and

science of

sex and

sexual relationships and

social sciences and

space disasters and

war and

See also
Deception

Self-esteem

Self-inflation

Self-justification

Self-opinion

September 11

Serotonin

Sex

extra-pair

imposed self-deception and

meaning of

shame and

See also
Sex differences; Sexual relationships

Sex differences

brain and

evolution of

overconfidence and

power and

war and

See also
sex; Sexual relationships

Sexual dysfunction

Sexual orientation

Sexual relationships

betrayal and

conflict in

courtship and

extra-pair sex and

fantasy and

female monthly cycle and

female sexual interest and

frequency dependence and

marriage and

men, homosexual tendencies in and

murder and

purpose of

reproduction and

sexual relationships and

uncertain paternity and

women, monthly cycle of and

See also
Sex; Sex differences

Shame

Silberglied, Robert

Slavery

Sleep

Social psychology

Social sciences

biology and

cultural anthropology and

development of

economics and

justice and truth and

psychology and

Social theories

biased

false

Somalia

Soviet Union

Space disasters

Challenger
disaster

Columbia
disaster

Spam vs. anti-spam

Spencer, Herbert

Sports

Squid

Squirrels

State Department, US

Stick insects (Phasmatodea)

Stock market

Sudan

Suicide attacks

Suppression

Syria, Syrians

Terrorism

Thrill seeking

Time
magazine

Times Square bomber

Torah

Torture

Trading

Triumph of the American Nation
(textbook)

Truman, Harry

Truth

deception and

denial of

justice and

religion and

science and

war and

Turkish genocide

UG.
See
Ultimatum game

UK.
See
United Kingdom

Ultimatum game (UG)

UN.
See
United Nations

Unconscious modules

United Kingdom (UK)