The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

by Robert Trivers

  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