The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
six degrees of separation
Skenazy, Lenore
skepticism
slavery
abolition of
in American South
death toll of
and debt bondage
first-person accounts of
history of
human trafficking
and Islam
and religion
and war
Slovic, Paul
Smith, Adam
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Smith, John Maynard
Smoot-Hawley Act
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The (TV)
Snow, C. P.
social capital
social class
Indian caste system
social contract
social Darwinism
social dilemma
social dominance
social identity
socialism
social mobility
society, as organic system
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Society for the Protection of Animals
sociopaths, see antisocial personality disorder; psychopaths
Sokal, Alan
soldiers, see armed forces
Solomon, King
Solomon, Richard
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Somoza, Anastasio
Song of the South (film)
Sorokin, Pitirim
souls:
of animals
vs. lives
transmigration of
South, American:
antiblack terrorism in
culture of honor in
slavery in
violence in
South Africa
South-West Africa, genocide in
sovereignty
Soviet Union, see USSR
Sowell, Thomas
Spagat, Michael
Spain
commerce in
Madrid train bombings
wars in
Spanish Inquisition
Spee, Father Friedrich
Spielberg, Steven
Spierenburg, Pieter
Spinoza, Baruch
Spitzer, Steven
Spock, Benjamin
sports, violent
sports fandom
spree killers
Springsteen, Bruce
Sri Lanka
Stalin, Joseph
Stanford Prison Experiment
Starr, Edwin
state-based armed conflict
states:
borders of
centralization of power in
destruction of
economic development of
emergence of
failed
homicide rates in
nonnuclear
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
trust in
war deaths
statistical lives
statistics:
bell curve
cluster illusion
conjunction fallacy
cross-lagged correlation
deadly quarrels
frequency
logarithmic scale
multiple logistic regression
orders of magnitude
patterns in
post hoc vs. a priori comparison
power-law distributions
probability
randomness
regression to the mean
rounding
Steckel, Richard
Steinbeck, John
stereotyping; see also categorization; essentialism, psychological; racism; sexism
Stewart, Jon
Stillwell, Arlene
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Straus, Murray
Stravinsky, Igor
Straw, Margaret
Stroop task
Sturm und Drang movement
Sudan
Suedfeld, Peter
Sugiyama, Lawrence
suicide terrorism
Suk, Jeannie
sunk-cost fallacy; see also loss aversion
Sunstein, Cass
superrationality
suttee
Suttner, Bertha von
Sutton, Willie
Swift, Jonathan
Switzerland
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Symons, Donald
sympathy; see also empathy
sympathy-altruism hypothesis
systematicity, in cognitive science
Szathmáry, Eörs
Taagepera, Rein
taboos:
chemical weapons
conquest
and euphemism
human life
infanticide
knife
in language
mentality of
and moral sense
national borders
nuclear
and political correctness
psychology of
rape, in video games
torture
tradeoffs
violence against children
weapons of mass destruction
tabula rasa
Tacitus
Tajfel, Henri
Taliban
Talmy, Len
Tamerlane (Timur Lenk)
Tamil Tigers
Tannenwald, Nina
Tanzania
taphonomy
Tavris, Carol
Taylor, Theodore
Tea Party movement
technology:
book production
Christian ideology vs.
and commerce
and cosmopolitanism
Global Village
government as
and information
killing at a distance
and moral progress
robots and drones
weaponry
temperance movement
temporal discounting; see also interest, and self-control
Ten Commandments
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
territory:
expansion of
fighting for
terrorism
Age of Terror
as asymmetrical warfare
and ethnic riots
failure of
and fear
in history
and Islam
nuclear
power-law distribution of
segregationist
September
statistics of
suicide
testosterone
Tetlock, Philip
Thaler, Richard
That Obscure Object of Desire (film)
Theisen, Ole
theoconservatism
theocracy
theory of mind; see also empathy; mentalizing
third nature
third world, see developing world
Thirty Years’ War
Thomas, Clarence
Thöni, Christian
Three Mile Island
Thucydides
Thurmond, Strom
Thyne, Clayton
Till, Emmett
Tilly, Charles
Titchener, Edward
Tit for Tat game
tit-for-tat retaliation
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tolstoy, Leo
Tooby, John
torture:
abolition of
death by a thousand cuts
as entertainment
and human sacrifice
of Inquisition
instruments of
of martyrs
in modern democracies
moral rationale of
museums of
as punishment
in Roman Empire
and Roman law
br />
and sadism
salvation attained by
ticking-bomb scenario
and witch executions
totalitarianism
and genocide
see also autocracy; dictatorships; theocracy
total war
Townshend, Pete
Toynbee, Arnold, A Study of History
trade, international
trafficking, see human trafficking
Tragedy of the Commons
Tremblay, Richard
tribalism
tribes:
archaeological sites
and community
elders
group dominance
horse tribes
kinship in
and sorcery
violence between
and witchcraft
see also hunter-gatherers; specific tribes
Trietschke, Heinrich von
Trivers, Robert
Trivers-Willard theory of sex ratios
Trojan War
Trolley Problem
Truman, Harry S.
Trust game
Tuchman, Barbara
Tucker, G. Richard
Tunisia
Turing, Alan
Turkey
Turner, Henry
Tutu, Desmond
Tversky, Amos
Twain, Mark
Huckleberry Finn
Twenge, Jean
20th century, violence in
twin studies:
and behavioral genetics
of criminals
of intelligence
of personality
Tylor, Edward
Tyndale, William
tyranny, see despotism; totalitarianism
UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Project)
Uganda
Ukraine
Ultimatum game
Umberto I, king of Italy
unemployment
United Kingdom, see Britain/United Kingdom; England; Ireland; Scotland; Wales
United Nations
Arab Human Development Report
on capital punishment
Committee on Rights of the Child
General Assembly
on genocide
and homosexuality
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
and national borders
Office on Drugs and Crime
and peacekeeping
Security Council
UNESCO motto
UNESCO Trafficking Statistics Project
UNICEF Child Survival Revolution
and violence against women
United States:
American Revolution
armed forces of
capital punishment in
closing of the frontier
and Cold War, see Cold War
culture war in
deaths in
decivilization in 1960s,
demographics of
geographical distribution of homicides in
as great power
homicide rates in
immigrants to
migration routes in
nuclear monopoly of
presidential debates
presidents
racism in
recivilization in 1990s,
violence in
war deaths in
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Uruguay
USSR:
Afghanistan invaded by
before and after Cold War, see Russia
collapse of
collectivization in
Cuban Missile Crisis
expansionism
genocide in
as great power
and nuclear weapons
Stalin’s purges
and World War II,
see also Cold War
utilitarianism
utopianism
uxoricide
vaccination
Valdesolo, Piercarlo
Valentino, Benjamin
Valero, Helena
Valéry, Paul
van der Dennen, Johan
van Gogh, Theo
Vasquez, John
vegetarianism
vengeance, see revenge
Venice, democracy in
Verkko’s Laws
Versailles, Treaty of
Vidor, King
Vienna, Congress of
Vietnam
“Vietnam Syndrome,”
Vietnam War
antiwar protests
atrocities in
deaths in
Tungsten Theory of
as war of attrition
vigilantism
Violence Against Women Act (1994)
violence triangle
Virginia, homicides in
vivisection
Vlad the Impaler
Voltaire
Vonnegut, Kurt
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Waal, Frans de
Waldman, Irwin
Wales
Walker, Alice
Wallis, John
Walsh, John
Waltz, Kenneth
war:
alternatives to
antiwar views
of attrition
avoidance of
battle deaths, use of term
categories of