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Bush, George W.
calculus
Capgras syndrome
CAPTCHA test
casinos, house advantage of
Castel, Alan
Catholic Church
abortion and
causation:
correlation confused with
delay blindness and
cerebellum
children:
false autobiographical memories in
soul as innate presumption of
chimpanzees:
imitation in
xenophobia in
choice architecture
Christian Science
chronostasis (stopped clock illusion)
Churchill, Winston
Cialdini, Robert
cigarettes:
advertising and marketing of
deaths linked to
delay blindness and
women and
circadian clocks
classical conditioning
advertising and
brain-imaging studies of
extinction in
temporal proximity and
cochlea
cognitive biases
anchoring
automatic decision making system and
brain-imaging studies of
choice architecture and
endowment effect
familiarity
framing
loss aversion
probability blindness
status quo
color discrimination
complex regional pain syndrome
computational abilities
associative architecture and
modular brain and
as poorly developed in humans
see also temporal distortions; time, biological computation of
computers:
brain compared to
bugs in
dynamic allocation of memory in
evolution of
storage mechanism vs. codes in
concentration camp survivors
conditioned stimulus
conditioning:
classical, see classical conditioning
of fear, see fear, conditioning of
operant
conjunction fallacy
consciousness
consolidation of memories
context:
behavior as influenced by
in language
neurons as affected by
sensitivity of brain to
conversational trajectory
cooperation:
evolution of
see also altruism
correlation, causation confused with
cortical allocation
cortical plasticity
adaptive value of
glitches in
cortical trauma
Cotton, Ronald
creation
creationists
credit cards
Crick, Francis
cultural transmission, see imitation
culture
implicit associations and
as programmer
curiosity:
fear vs.
supernatural beliefs and
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The (Haddon)
Darwin, Charles
Darwinism
Dawkins, Richard
deaths:
cigarette-related
fear of dying vs. actual rates of
in U.S., from military or terrorist attacks
De Beers
decision making:
associative architecture and
automatic (associative) system for
cognitive biases and, see cognitive
biases default bias in
neural system and
by referees
reflective (rule-based) system for
temporal discounting and
decoy (attraction) effect
default bias
Dehaene, Stanislas
delay blindness
democracy:
apathy and
brain bugs and
delay blindness and
dendrites
Dennett, Daniel
Descent of Man, The (Darwin)
Deuteronomy
de Waal, Frans
diamonds, marketing of
DNA
circadian clock and
forensic use of
neural operating system as encoded by
phylogenetic memories as encoded in
as storage system
dodo
dogs, rabies in
dominance
dualism:
in children
as default state of human brain
E=mc2
echolocation, blind people and
economic decision making
temporal discounting and
Edison, Thomas
Einstein, Albert
embodied cognition
embryonic stem-cell research
emotions, emotional processing:
associative architecture and
consciousness and
facial recognition linked to
limbic system and
see also fear
encephalitis
endowment effect
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
evolution
as accumulation of kludges
of human brain
of mammals
outdated adaptations in
religion and teaching of
religion as by-product of
religion as selected by
slow pace of
executive functions
extinction, in classical conditioning
eyeblink conditioning
eyewitness testimony:
contamination of
unreliability of
Facebook
faces, angry, conditioned fear of
facial recognition, emotional significance linked to
fallacies:
associative architecture and
conjunction
gambler’s
simplicity as factor in perseverance of
false memories
associative architecture and
in children
fabrication of
magicians’ manipulation of
“repressed” memories as
see also eyewitness testimony
familiarity bias
fear
adaptive value of
amygdala and
conditioning of
conditioning of, subliminal
curiosity vs.
of dying, vs. actual death rates
lack of control as factor in
as learned response
neural basis of
reason as overridden by
supernatural beliefs compared to
fear, innate (phylogenetic)
evolutionary loss of
in geese
as genetically encoded
as outdated evolutionary baggage
parasitic manipulation of
fear, innate propensities for
observational learning and
as outdated evolutionary baggage
phobias and
as self-fulfilling
xenophobia and
fearmongering:
as marketing technique
susceptibility to
Federal Drug Administration
financial crisis of 2008
flash-lag effect
folk religions
food, obtaining of:
loss aversion and
as primary concern for early humans
food, taste of:
conditioned aversion to
packaging and
Fosbury, Dick
framing
free-association
Freud, Sigmund
Fried, Itzhak
“Funes the Memorious” (Borges)
Gage, Phineas
Galapagos Islands
Galifianakis, Zach
Gall, Franz Joseph
gambler’s fallacy
Gawronski, Bertram
geese, innate fear in
gender stereotypes
genes, storage systems vs. codes in
germ theory
Gigerenzer, Gird
Gilbert, Daniel
Gladwell, Malcolm
Glassner, Barry
glutamate
“God center,”
Goebbels, Joseph
Gore, Al
Gould, Stephen Jay
graceful degradation
granule cells
Greenwald, Anthony
group selection
free riders and
Haddon, Mark
hair cells, cochlear
Hall, Monty
hallucinogenic drugs
Harris, Sam
Hebb, Donald
Hebb’s rule
Hellman, Hal
herpes virus
Hill, George
hippocampus
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf
HIV/AIDS
homeostatic mechanisms
homicide, fear of
hominins
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens, evolution of
Hood, Bruce
hosts, definitive vs. intermediary
house advantage
humor, associations and
Hunt, Bertha
hunter-gatherers
hypothalamus
imitation
advertising and
behavior modification and
indiscriminate generalization and
looting and
mirror neurons and
in monkeys
in primates
immediate gratification
innate bias toward
implicit associations
culture and
as product of both nature and nurture
tests for
imprinting
Institute for Safe Medication Practice
interest rates
investors, “chasing a loss” behavior of
irrational-rational continuum
Ivins, Bruce
Japanese Americans
World War II internment of
Jaws
jet lag
Jordan, Michael
judicial system, reliance on eyewitness testimony in
Kahneman, Daniel
Klamath
Korean Americans
Koshima
language, context in
Las Vegas, Nev.
lateral prefrontal cortex
Law & Order
Leaning Tower of Pisa
learning:
classical conditioning in, see classical conditioning
delay blindness in
neurons and
observational; see also imitation
operant conditioning in
plasticity of mechanisms for
LeDoux, Joe
Leibniz, Gottfried
Let’s Make a Deal
libertarian paternalism
life, creation of
limbic system
Linden, David
links
Loewenstein, George
Loftus, Elizabeth
Lømo, Terje
long-term potentiation
looting, imitation and
Lorenz, Konrad
loss aversion
LSD
lung cancer, delay blindness and
McClelland, James
McGurk effect
Machiavelli, Niccolò
mammals, evolution of
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The (Sacks)
marketing, see advertising and marketing
marmoset monkeys
mathematical ability, see computational ability
Matrix, The
Mauritania
Mbeki, Thabo
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
memory
amnesia and
associative architecture of
attention in
autobiographical (episodic)
capacity of
consolidation of
context in
declarative (explicit); see also memory, semantic
digital
as fluid reconstructions
impaired formation of
loss of, latest-to-earliest sequence in
mechanism vs. codes in
for names
nondeclarative (implicit)
for numbers
phylogenetic (innate)
priming and
purpose of
reconsolidation of
“repressed,” see “repressed” memories
selectivity in
semantic
significance in
storage vs. retrieval mechanisms in
synaptic plasticity in
“time stamping” as unreliable in
unreliability of, see false memories
updating of
memory markers
Mendel, Gregor
“Men in a War” (Vega)
Merzenich, Michael
mice and rats:
fear conditioning in
imitation in
impairment of memory formation in
reconsolidation of memory in
running wheels and
military spending
Miller, Earl
Mineka, Susan
mirror neurons
mnemonic devices
mnemonics
money:
perceived value of
as recent cultural artifact
monkeys:
fear of snakes in
imitation in
numerical approximation experiments with
somatosensory experiments with
temporal distortion experiments with
temporal lobe experiments with
Monty Hall problem
moral codes, supernatural beliefs and
Morse code
moths
motor control, loss of
movement, reflexive response to
musicians, cortical allocation in
mutations
names:
memory for
as recent cultural artifacts
Nazi Germany
Neanderthals
Nelson, Lord
neocortex
Neptune (planet)
neural operating system:
brain as programmed by
as encoded in DNA
neurons, neural system
action potentials of
in computation of time
as context-dependent
decision making and
evolution of
fallibility of
homeostatic mechanisms of
learning and
mirror
normal loss of
numbers as represented by
presynaptic vs. postsynaptic
protein synthesis and
reallocation of
spirituality and
visual illusions and
see also synapses
neuroparasitism
neurotransmitters
Newton, Isaac
New York Times
Nieder, Andreas
NMDA receptors
nodes
nucleotides
numbers
approximation of
memory for
neural representation of
priming for
as recent cultural artifact
Number Sense, The (Dehaene)
N.W. Ayer
observational learning
obstetricians, puerperal fever and
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Ollson, Andreas
Olympics
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
operant conditioning
orbitalfrontal cortex
organ donors
orienting response