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.
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
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