The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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Index
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Aaronovitch, David, [>]–[>]
“Absalom and Achitophel” (Dryden), [>]
Adolf Hitler as Painter and Draftsman, [>]
AIDS conspiracy theory, [>]
air loom, [>]–[>], [>]
Air Loom Gang, [>]–[>]
Air Loom Gang, The (Jay), [>]
Alexander the Great, [>]
Allen, Brooke, [>]–[>]
Almansor (Heine), [>]
American Psychologist, [>]
amnesia victims
with Korsakoff’s syndrome, [>]
practice and, [>]
amygdala, [>]
Anthology of Rap, The (Yale University Press), [>]
Apatow, Judd, [>]–[>]
aphrodisiac bubble gum, [>]
Appel, Markus, [>]–[>]
“Arabian Nights” oral storytelling, [>]
Arawak Indians, [>]
archaeologists as storytellers, [>]
Area [>] cover-ups conspiracy theories, [>]
Aristotle, [>], [>]
Aronson, Eliot, [>]
art
evolution and, [>], [>]–[>]
purpose, [>]
artists and mental disorders
description/examples, [>]–[>]
genetics and, [>]
statistics on, [>]–[>], [>]
substance abuse and, [>], [>], [>]
Atonement (McEwan), [>]
Auden, W.H., [>]
Avatar (film), [>]
Bainbridge, William Sims, [>]
Baker, Katie, [>]–[>]
Barrie, James, [>]
Barrus, Timothy, [>]
Baxter, Charles, [>]
Bedlam (Bethlem) Hospital, London, [>]
Bentley, Toni, [>]
Bernheim, Hippolyte, [>]–[>], [>]
Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital, London, [>]
Beyond the Mat (documentary), [>]
big bang, [>]
bike riding, learning, [>]–[>]
biological vs. cultural evolution, [>]–[>]
bipolar disorder and creative artists, [>]–[>]
Birth of a Nation (film), [>], [>]
Bissell, Tom, [>]
“Black Cat, The” (Poe), [>]
Black Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, [>]–[>], [>]
Blaustein, Barry, [>]
Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams (Nasdijj/Barrus), [>]–[>]
Bloom, Paul, [>]
Bogen, Joseph, [>]–[>]
books
burning by Nazis, [>]–[>]
status today, [>]
Bowie, David, [>]
Boyd, Brian, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner (Paley), [>], [>]
Bradbury, Ray, [>]–[>]
Bradley, Adam, [>]
Brave New World (Huxley), [>]
Breaking Bad (television), [>], [>], [>]
Brecht, Bertolt, [>]
Brock, Timothy, [>]
Brown, Dan, [>], [>]
Brown, Roger, [>]–[>]
Bruner, Jerome, [>]
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, [>]
Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, [>]
Burning Down the House (Baxter), [>]
Burroway, Janet, [>], [>]–[>]
Bush, George W., [>]–[>]
business executives as storytellers, [>]
Byron, Lord, [>], [>]
Cage, David, [>]–[>]
CAH (congenital adrenal hyperplasia), [>]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, [>]
Candide, [>]
Cantor, Joanne, [>]–[>]
Card, Andy, [>]
Carr, David
Donald (friend) and, [>]–[>]
substance abuse, [>]–[>]
writing memoir, [>]–[>]
Carroll, Joseph, [>]
Carter, Asa (Forrest), [>], [>]
Castronova, Edward, [>]–[>]
cave art, France, [>]
Cervantes, Miguel de, [>]
Challenger explosion and memory, [>]–[>]
Chekhov, Anton, [>]
children and make-believe
ages one to four, [>]–[>]
description, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
fairy tales/nursery rhymes and, [>]–[>], [>]
importance of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
story examples, [>]–[>]
trouble/violence and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
children’s play
boys play, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
in garbage dump, [>]
gender stereotypes and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
girls play, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
girls with CAH, [>]
importance, [>]
morality and, [>]
Chomsky, Noam, [>]
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), [>]
Citizen Kane (film), [>]
Clancy, Tom, [>]
clay bison art, [>]
Clockwork Orange, A, [>]
Coffin, Zimri, [>], [>]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [>]–[>]
Columbus, Christopher, [>]–[>], [>]
Comeuppance (Flesch), [>]–[>]
commercials
mirror neurons and, [>], [>]
as story, [>]–[>]
communication without words, [>]–[>], [>]
community nature of story
theater movies and, [>], [>]
today, [>]–[>]
congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), [>]
conspiracy theories
about/examples, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
believers’ characteristics, [>]–[>]
on entertainers/political figures, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
statistics on believers, [>]
corpus callosum
function, [>], [>], [>]
See also split-brain studies
Cosby Show, The (television), [>]
Cotard’s syndrome, [>]
Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich, The (Hitler), [>]
Crane, Hart, [>]
Crews, Frederick, [>]
Crick, Francis, [>]
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), [>]
Crossley, Michele, [>]
cultural vs. biological evolution, [>]–[>]
Curb Your Enthusiasm (television), [>]
Darkness at Noon (Koestler), [>]
Darwin, Charles, [>], [>]
Darwin’s Cathedral (Wilson), [>]–[>]
Dauphin (whaleship), [>]
David, Larry, [>]
Da Vinci Code, The (Brown), [>], [>]
Dawkins, Richard, [>]
daydreams, [>]–[>], [>]
Deadwood (television), [>]
Dement, William, [>]
De Niro, Robert, [>]
Dennett, Daniel, [>]
depressed people
psychotherapy and, [>]
self-assessment and, [>]
De Wael, Monique, [>]
Dexter (television), [>]
Diana, Princess death
conspiracy theories on, [>]
flawed memories on, [>]
Dickens, Charles, [>]
Dickinson, Rod, [>]
Dinstein, Ilan, [>]
Don Quixote (Cervantes), [>], [>], [>]
Dostoyevsky, [>], [>], [>]
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, [>]–[>], [>]
dream amnesia, [>], [>]
dream functions
autotherapy, [>]
criticism of Freudians, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
&nb
sp; forgetting and, [>]–[>]
Freud/Freudians on, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
ideas on, [>]–[>]
plasticity of brain and, [>]
as practice, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
short-/long-term memory organization, [>]
dream functions/problem simulation theory
description, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
dreams as unreal, [>]–[>]
implicit memory and, [>]
See also dreams of trouble; RAT (random activation theory)
dreams
as bizarre, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
brain’s reaction to, [>], [>]
collecting reports on, [>]
creativity of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
definition, [>]
dream blockades, [>], [>], [>]
emotional centers of brain and, [>]
experiments with cats, [>]–[>]
as night stories, [>], [>]–[>]
non-human species and, [>]–[>], [>]
REM behavior disorder (RBD), [>]
sleep atonia, [>]–[>], [>]
sleep cycle and, [>], [>]
statistics on, [>]–[>]
dreams of trouble
cat experiments, [>]–[>]
common themes, [>]
descriptions, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Gottschall’s desert dream, [>]–[>], [>]
Gottschall’s examples, [>]–[>]
other species, [>]–[>]
as practice, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
as real to brain, [>]
statistics on, [>]–[>]
as universal, [>]
vs. other themes, [>]–[>]
Dreiser, Theodore, [>]
Dryden, John, [>]
Dubliners (Joyce), [>]–[>]
Dungeons and Dragons, [>], [>]
dura of brain, [>]
Durkheim, Émile, [>]
Education of Little Tree, The (Carter), [>]
Elkind, David, [>]
Ellison, Ralph, [>]
Ellroy, James, [>]
Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (Jones), [>]–[>]
epilepsy and Bogen’s experiment, [>]–[>]
escapist theory of fiction, [>]–[>], [>]
ESPN Radio and story, [>]
Everything Bad Is Good for You (Johnson), [>]
evolution
art and, [>], [>]–[>]
cultural vs. biological evolution, [>]–[>]
examples, [>]–[>]
gender differences and, [>]
group selection and, [>]
hand example, [>]–[>], [>]
hand purposes, [>], [>]
opposable thumb, [>], [>]
as utilitarian, [>]
See also religion and evolution
evolution and story. See story functions
Evolution of Childhood, The (Konner), [>]
Exodus to the Virtual World (Castronova), [>]–[>]
explicit memory, [>], [>]
Extra Lives (Bissell), [>]
Extreme Makeover (television), [>]
"face" on Mars, [>]
facial differences/story differences analogy, [>]
fairy tales/nursery rhymes, [>]–[>], [>]
Fajans, Joel, [>]
false positives vs. false negatives, [>]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, [>]
“feelies” of Brave New World, [>]
Fest, Joachim, [>]
fiction. See story
Fine, Cordelia, [>]–[>]
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), [>]–[>]
Flanagan, Owen, [>], [>]
flashbulb memories
9/11 attacks, [>]–[>]
Challenger explosion, [>]–[>]
inaccuracies of, [>]–[>]
JFK assassination, [>]–[>], [>]
London’s 7/7 bombings, [>]
Princess Diana’s death, [>]
Flaubert, Gustave, [>]
Flesch, William, [>]–[>], [>]
flight simulators
landing on aircraft carriers and, [>], [>]
practice, [>], [>], [>], [>]
testing effectiveness of, [>]