Out-group associations
Overconfidence
aviation disasters and
knowledge and
narcissism and
sex differences and
war and
Pain
Palestine, Palestinians
Panama
Parasite load
Parasite-host relationships
Parental investment
Parent-offspring relationships
children, deception in and
conflict in
family and
internal bifurcation and
language and self-deception and
manipulation and
misrepresentation and
Paternity, uncertain
Paul XXIII, Pope
Pentagon
Pillar, Paul
Pitch of voice
Placebo effects
neurophysiology and
prayer and
religion and
self-deception, benefits of and
Polytheism
Positivity effect
Power
Prayer
Predator-prey relationships
Predictability
Primates
Prisoner’s dilemma
Projection
Protestantism
Psychology
avoiding and seeking information and
biased memory and
biasing and
cognitive dissonance and
denial and
encoding and interpretation of information and
immunology and
prediction of future feelings and
projection and
psychoanalysis and
psychological immune system and
rationalization and biased reporting and
self-deception, advantages of and
self-deception, defensive function of
social
Qana massacre (1996)
Racism
Raiding
Randomness
Rationalization
Reason
Relatedness. See Family
Relationships
conflict in
courtship and
deception and
evolution of
low-love
parasite-host
parent-offspring
prayer and
predator-prey
prophet, deification of and
religion and
sexual
social
Religion
believer, status of and
cognitive dissonance and
disease and
evolutionary theory of
faith and reason and
false historical narratives and
health and
immunology and
in-group cooperation and
language and
liberation theology and
mating systems and
meditation and
meme-centered view of
miracles and
parasites and diversity and
power and
prayer and
splits in
suicide attacks and
truth and
war and
women, bias against and
Reproduction
Republican Party, Republicans
Reputation
Risk taking
Rock, Chris
Roman Catholicism. See Catholic Church, Catholicism
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rumsfeld, Donald
Russia
Rwanda
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Screw-ball
Selective recall
Self-deception
aviation disasters and
benefits of
biological approach to
biology and
costs of
daily life and
deceit and
deception of others and
defensive function of
definition of
economics and
evolution of
evolutionary logic of
false historical narratives and
family and
fighting
group
hallmarks of
immunology and
imposed
language and
natural selection and
neurophysiology and
as offensive strategy
primary function of
psychological approach to
psychology and
psychology of
rationalization and
religion and
science of
sex and
sexual relationships and
social sciences and
space disasters and
war and
See also Deception
Self-esteem
Self-inflation
Self-justification
Self-opinion
September 11
Serotonin
Sex
extra-pair
imposed self-deception and
meaning of
shame and
See also Sex differences; Sexual relationships
Sex differences
brain and
evolution of
overconfidence and
power and
war and
See also sex; Sexual relationships
Sexual dysfunction
Sexual orientation
Sexual relationships
betrayal and
conflict in
courtship and
extra-pair sex and
fantasy and
female monthly cycle and
female sexual interest and
frequency dependence and
marriage and
men, homosexual tendencies in and
murder and
purpose of
reproduction and
sexual relationships and
uncertain paternity and
women, monthly cycle of and
See also Sex; Sex differences
Shame
Silberglied, Robert
Slavery
Sleep
Social psychology
Social sciences
biology and
cultural anthropology and
development of
economics and
justice and truth and
psychology and
Social theories
biased
false
Somalia
Soviet Union
Space disasters
Challenger disaster
Columbia disaster
Spam vs. anti-spam
Spencer, Herbert
Sports
Squid
Squirrels
State Department, US
Stick insects (Phasmatodea)
Stock market
Sudan
Suicide attacks
Suppression
Syria, Syrians
Terrorism
Thrill seeking
Time magazine
Times Square bomber
Torah
Torture
Trading
Triumph of the American Nation (textbook)
Truman, Harry
Truth
deception and
denial of
justice and
religion and
science and
war and
Turkish genocide
UG. See Ultimatum game
UK. See United Kingdom
Ultimatum game (UG)
UN. See United Nations
Unconscious modules
United Kingdom (UK)
United Nations (UN)
United States
false his
torical narratives and
foreign policy in
safety approach of
war and
UNSCOM
USAID
Vatican II
Vietnam War
Virginia, University of
Viruses
War
bombing and
control and
creating and walling off information and
denial and
derogation of others and
evolution of
false historical narratives and
faulty decisions in
“home field” advantage and
Iraq war (2003) and
language and
modern
moral superiority and
natural selection and
overconfidence and
power and
primitive
rationalization and
religion and
risk taking and
sex differences and
small
truth and
Washington, George
Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
West Africa
West Bank
Wetherbee, James
White lies
WMDs. See Weapons of mass destruction
Wolf Man
Wolfowitz, Paul
Women
deception, detection of and
infidelity and
monthly cycle of
overconfidence and
religion and
sexual abuse of
sexual interest of
sexuality of
war and
Woods, Elin
Woods, Tiger
World Bank
World War I
World War II
Zionism, Zionists See also Christian Zionism
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Trivers, Robert.
The folly of fools : the logic of deceit and self-deception in human life / Robert Trivers. p. cm.
eISBN : 978-0-465-02805-4
(e-book) 1. Self-deception. 2. Deception—Psychological aspects. 3. Deception—Social aspects. I. Title.
BF697.5.S426T76 2011
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