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causal inference,
118

20

emotions,
158

61
,
168

fundamental attribution error,
181

83

in-group versus out-group,
175

80
,
185

88

inner speech or voice,
29
,
115

18
,
144
,
155
,
159

61
,
234
,
240

moral judgments,
196

98

reconstructive retrieval,
135

self-concept,
118

20

social attributions,
186

88

Internet,
236
,
246

54

intrinsic religiosity.
See
religion

Izard, Carl,
150

 

James, William
213

14
,
220

22

jealousy,
167

68

John-Steiner, Vera,
235

joint attention,
67

70

 

Kanzi,
96

Kohlberg, Lawrence,
190

 

language,
14
,
29
,
31
,
174
,
203

and morality,
203

morpheme,
87

88

and out-groups,
179

phoneme,
88

89
,
238

phonology,
238

pragmatics,
91

92

semantics,
239

syntax,
89

90

Lazarus, Richard,
151

LeDoux, Joseph,
28

limbic system,
26

28
,
48

literacy,
31
,
71
,
237

39
,
250

51

long-term memory

declarative memory,
37
,
126

27
,
234

episodic memory,
126
,
129

30
,
132

37
,
234

procedural memory,
37
,
126

semantic memory,
126

29
,
131

32

Luria, A. R.,
235

 

MacLean, Paul,
27

28

Mazower, Mark,
178

memory.
See
long-term memory; working memory

mental time travel,
8
,
13

14
,
30

31
,
125

26
,
143

47
,
155
,
168
,
203
,
234

35

mesencephalon,
22

23
,
26

Mesolithic,
211

metencephalon,
23
,
26

Micklethwait, John,
227

midbrain.
See
brain structure

Milgram, Stanley,
193

mirror neurons,
198

202

mitochondrial DNA,
21

modules,
38

40

monkeys,
15
,
92

94

morality,
31
,
202
,

empathy,
198

201

moral intuitions,
196

98

moral muscle,
201

205

multiregional hypothesis.
See
human origins

 

Neanderthals.
See Homo neanderthalis

Neilsen, Michael,
253

Neolithic,
11
,
61

Newberg, Andrew,
224

nostalgia,
145

46

nucleus accumbens,
164

 

Olson, Donald,
244

Ong, Walter,
243

44

orangutan,
42

orbital frontal cortex,
207

out-of-Africa hypothesis.
See
human origins

oxytocin,
174

 

panic attack,
154

Phelps, Elizabeth,
160

phenotype,
16

phobia,
154

55

phonemes.
See
language

phonological loop,
37
,
44

46
.
See also
working memory

phonology.
See
language

placebo effect,
161

64

positive illusions,
120

23

Posner, Michael,
53

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
156

58

pragmatics.
See
language

prefrontal cortex,
41

42
,
47

48
,
66
,
89
,
175

ventromedial,
207

dorsolateral,
43

right inferior,
201

prosopagnosia,
38

psychopath.
See
antisocial personality

 

race,
176
,
178

79
,
184

86

racism,
179

80
,
183

86

ratchet effect,
63
,
73

Raven, George,
21

reconstructive retrieval,
130

38

recovered memories,
140

41

religion,
211

14
,
230

repression,
122

23
,
139

41

reward system,
164

65

and the genome,
224

26

and health,
217

20

intrinsic versus extrinsic religiosity,
216

18

mystical states,
224

and science,
227

30

versus spirituality,
216

RNA,
25

Rothbart, Mary,
53

Rubin, David,
245

Ruhlen, Merritt,
86

 

self-concept,
118

20

self-control,
201

209

self-esteem,
120

21

self-talk.
See
interpreter; inner speech

semantics.
See
language

Seybold, Kevin,
217

single positron emission tomography (SPECT),
224

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter,
205

social intelligence,
29
,
31
,
66
,
196
,
248

Souberman, Ellen,
235

source monitoring,
138

40

spatial working memory.
See
working memory

spirituality,
31
,
211

12
,
216

17
,
222

23
.
See also
religion

substantia nigra,
164

Suddendorf, Thomas,
204

symbolic thought,
29
,
31
,
84
,
190

symbols,
177

78

syntax.
See
language

 

Tapscott, Don,
253

Taylor, Jill Bolte,
123

Taylor, Shelley,
120

21
,
173

telencephalon,
22

temporal-lobe epilepsy,
221

23

terror management theory,
214

16

thalamus,
23
,
27

theory of mind,
69

Thompson, Richard,
26

tip-of-the tongue state,
89

Tippett, Krista,
213

Tomasello, Michael,
62
,
68
,
73

Tulving, Endel,
125
,
129

 

Upper Paleolithic,
8

10
,
33
,
41
,
59

61
,
99
,
211
,
225
,
231

32
,
235

us versus them.
See
interpreter; in-group versus out-group

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