The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
1960s
trafficking
War on Drugs
Druids
Dubner, Stephen
Duck Soup (film)
Duckworth, Angela
dueling
Dukakis, Michael
Dulles, John Foster
Dumas, Alexandre père
Durham, Margaret
Dworkin, Andrea
Dylan, Bob
dynasties, see Age of Dynasties; monarchy
Eastern Europe
abortions in
and democracy
and genocide
violence against women in
wars in
East Timor
Easy Rider (film)
Eckhardt, William
Eden, William
education
and civil war
and democracy
IQ tests
method and content of
ego depletion
egotism
Egypt, ancient
Egypt, modern
Eichmann, Adolf
80:20 rule
Eighty Years’ War
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eisner, Manuel
Elias, Norbert
The Civilizing Process
on medieval Europe
on self-control
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabeth I, queen of England
Ellickson, Robert
El Salvador
Emancipation Proclamation
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
emotions
and armies
and the brain
and conflict resolution
contagious
control of
and genocide
in Middle Ages
moralizing
opponent process theory of
postpartum
and psychopathy
see also anger; compassion; disgust; empathy; fear; forgiveness; guilt; sympathy
empathy
and the brain
circle of
and Civilizing Process
and counterempathy
dark side of
and Humanitarian Revolution
introduction of concept
and literacy
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
parochial nature of
and revenge modulation
sadism deterred by
use of term
see also mentalizing; sympathy; theory of mind
empathy-altruism hypothesis
Emperor’s New Clothes
endogenous opiates
endogenous variables
endorphins
Enga people of New Guinea
Engelsing, Rolf
Engerman, Stanley
England:
anti-Catholic riots in
aristocrats in
Blitz in
bobbies
book production in
capital punishment in
Civilizing Process in
Civil War
domestic violence in
Glorious Revolution (1688)
homicide rates in
income in
interest rates in
literacy in
medieval
punishments in
witchcraft in
see also Britain/United Kingdom
Englis, Basil
Enlightenment
and autonomy
and Civilizing Process
counter-Enlightenment
definition of
and the Holocaust
and humanitarian reform
and Islam
and women’s rights
Enlightenment humanism
environmental issues
environment of evolutionary adaptedness
Equality Matching
Equal Rights Amendment
Erasmus, Desiderius
Ericksen, Karen
Eritrean-Ethiopian war
Ervin, Sam
Escalation game; see also War of Attrition game
escalator of reason
Esperanto
essentialism, psychological
E.T. (film)
Ethical Marine Warrior
ethnic cleansing
ethnic conflict
ethnic riots, deadly; see also pogroms
etiquette
in medieval times
and self-control
eunuchs
euphemism
Europe:
antiwar views in
armed forces of
capital punishment in
centralized monarchies in
colonies of
dark ages in
democracy in
early modern
etiquette in
explorers from
homicide rates in
interstate wars in Cold War
literacy in
medieval
national borders in
states of
terrorism in
20th-century
witchcraft in
world wars in
European Union
euthanasia
Evers, Medgar
evil:
banality of
definition of
and the Devil
effects of
and moral sense
myth of pure
evolution
adaptation
biological
cannibalism in
competition
in cultural change
dominance in
and game theory
and heritability
of human societies
natural selection
of nonviolence
and primate behavior
recent
of reciprocal altruism
survival
uses of term
evolutionary psychology:
analysis of children and parents
analysis of consciousness
analysis of cooperation
analysis of feeding and disgust
analysis of group conflict
analysis of revenge and justice
analysis of self-deception
analysis of sexuality
analysis of violence
environment of evolutionary adaptedness
and international relations
science of
excess deaths
exchange relationships
executions, see capital punishment
exogenous variables
Expanding Circle, theory of
face-to-face violence
Fagen, Michael
fairness; see also altruism, reciprocal; Autonomy, ethic of; Equality Matching
Falkenrath, Richard
Falkland Islands
FALN
false-consensus effect
family structures
famine
Fantasticks, The (musical)
Farrakhan, Louis
fascism
Fattah, Khaled
FBI
fear:
and the brain
and competition
as “diffidence,”
and genocide
group-against-group
psychology of
and terrorism
Fearon, James
Fechner’s law, applied to lives; see also statistical lives
Federalist Papers
Fehr, Ernst
Feingold, David
Feller, William
females, see women
feminization
Fest, Joachim
Festinger, Leon
feudal system
fiction
Fierke, K. M.
fight-or-flight response
filicides
Fine Madness, A (film)
Finkelhor, David
Fis
her, David Hackett
fishing
Fiske, Alan
fisticuffs; see also face-to-face violence
Flavius Josephus
flogging
Flynn, James
Flynn Effect
Fogel, Robert
forgiveness
formal operations, Piagetian stage
Fortna, Virginia Page
forward panic (rampage)
fossil hominids
Fox, James Alan
France:
Albigensian Crusade
and Algeria
book production in
colonies of
government in
as great power
homicides in
romantic militarism in
slavery abolished in
torture in
and Vietnam
wars fought in
witch-hunters in
Franco-Prussian War
Frank, Anne
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
freakonomics theory of crime decline
free market; see also commerce; gentle commerce; trade, international
free-rider problem
free speech
Free the Slaves (organization)
French Revolution
Freud, Sigmund
friendship
Frith, Chris
Fukuyama, Francis
Gächter, Simon
Gacy, John Wayne
Gaddis, John
Gage, Phineas
Galen
Galileo Galilei
Galois, Évariste
gambler’s fallacy
gambling, and violence
game theory; see also coordination games; Dictator game; Escalation game; Pacifist’s Dilemma; positive-sum games; Prisoner’s Dilemma; Public Goods game; Tragedy of the Commons; Trust game; Ultimatum game; War of Attrition game; zero-sum games
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
Gandhi, Rajmohan
Gangs of New York (film)
Garrard, Graeme
Garrison, William Lloyd
Garton Ash, Timothy
Garwin, Richard
Gat, Azar
gay rights, see homosexuality
General Social Survey
generation gap
Generation X,
genes
and aggression
feedback loops of
mutations in
Warrior Gene theory
Geneva Conventions
Genghis Khan
genocide
age of
Albigensian Crusade
and categorization
and commerce
as crimes against humanity
death rates in
division of labor in
Holocaust
and Enlightenment
and evil
and Hitler
long-term trends
and ideology
of Native Americans
Nazism
participation in
and political crises
psychology of
and rape
risk factors
survivors of
word coined for
Genovese, Jeremy
Genovese, Kitty
gentle commerce
as antiwar measure
and Civilizing Process
and cooperation
introduction of concept
and Kant
and Leviathan
and Liberal Peace
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
George, Saint
Georgia (Asia)
Georgia (U.S.), homicides in
Gerges, Fawaz
German Peace Society
Germany:
Berlin Wall
borders of
and empire
genocide in; see also Holocaust
homicides in
militarism in
Nazi Party in, see Nazism
pacifism in
and poison gas
unification
wars fought in
witch-hunters in
and world wars
Geronimo
Gigerenzer, Gerd
Gilbert, Daniel
Gilles de Rais
Gilligan, Carol
Gilmore commission
Gimme Shelter (documentary)
Ginges, Jeremy
Gini coefficient
Giuliani, Rudy
Glaeser, Edward
Gleason, Jackie
Gleditsch, Kristian
Gleditsch, Nils Petter
globalization; see also trade, international
Global Terrorism Database
Global Village
Global Zero
glory, concept of
Glover, Jonathan
glucose
God; see also religion
Godfather, The (film)
Godwin, William
Goetz, Bernhard
Goffman, Erving
Golden Arches theory
Golden Rule
Goldhagen, Daniel
Goldstein, Joshua
Goldwater, Barry
Gone With the Wind (film)
Goodall, Jane
Goodman, Andrew
Goodman, Paul
Goodwin, Jan
Gopnik, Adam