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  Index

  Abernathy, Ralph, 24

  Accuracy issue, 77–79

  Aché tribe, 36

  Ackerman, Josh, 166

  Adaptive behavior

  accuracy and, 77–78

  biases and, 76

  exploiting, 185–186

  indicator of, 10

  and life history strategies, 119, 132, 135

  and loss aversion, 46, 47

  See also Evolutionary challenges, the need to solve

  Advertising

  and changing preferences, 27–30

  exploitation in, 188

  and marketing strategies, 190–194

  and stable preferences, 26

  Advertising Age (magazine), 196

  Affiliation subself

  ancestral problem of, 107–108

  and compatibility between subselves, 49

  described, 36–37, 212

  erasing errors by engaging, 113–114

  fulfilling the needs of, spending on, 189

  hierarchy of needs and, 43

  mating effort and, 122

  others exploiting, 186

  parasites of, 199

  and rules of the game, 60–64

  somatic effort and, 122

  Wason task and, 107, 108

  See also specific aspects related to the affiliation subself

  Age factors. See Childhood; Children; Men; Teenagers/young adults; Women

  AIDS epidemic, 165

  American culture, 144–145

  Anderson, Siwan, 162, 163

  Animals, people as, view focusing on. See Evolutionary psychologist perspective

  Aniston, Jennifer, 169

  Apple, Inc., 61, 64, 65, 93, 127

  Assault, 17, 33, 134

  Assumptions, avoiding, 209–210

  Auditory looming, 78

  Authority ranking, 64–65

  Automobile culture, 149

  Bachelor, The (television show), 180

  Bachelorette, The (television show), 180

  Bad judgment. See Errors/mistakes

  Bankruptcy, 117–118, 119, 136, 138

  Baumeister, Roy F., 163–164

  Beal, Dan, 157

  Beautiful young women, men’s preference for, 167–169, 170, 171, 173

  Beauty products and regimes, women’s spending on, 175–176

  Becker, Vaughn, 34

  Behavior

  mystery of, 215–216

  predicting, 16, 46

  See also Adaptive behavior

  Behavioral economist perspective

  as both right and wrong, 9

  contributions of, and suggestions to improve upon, 214

  lesson about, 209–210

  of man as irrational, described, 4–7

  rational economists versus, 6, 7

  theory lacking in, 16

  See also specific ideas/concepts of behavioral economists

  Behavioral immune system, 83–84

  Belsky, Jay, 134

  Bias

  assumptions about, avoiding, 209–210

  being born with, benefits of, 93–94

  calculated, 82

  clustering illusion, 6–7

  and the different subselves, 45, 73

  evolutionary view of, 10, 11

  false consensus, 76

  gambler’s fallacy, 6, 7

  hindsight, 6, 7

  intentional, reason for, 76, 78

  loss aversion, 5, 9–
11, 45–48

  overconfidence, 77, 91–93, 94, 123

  perceived as irrational, 5, 6–7, 9

  ultimate reasons for, perspective providing, 16, 20

  See also Errors/mistakes; Subselves

  Bissoon, Lionel, 126

  Bowerbird displays, 152–154, 155

  Brain mass, 77

  Brain programming, 31–32

  Brain size, 40

  Bride price, 162–163, 171, 182

  Brin, Sergey, 127

  Bringing Down the House (Mezrich), 167

  Bryan, Angela, 83

  Burrell, Stanley. See MC Hammer

  Business

  aggressiveness in, 127

  market economics and, problem with, 68–69

  See also Corporate economics; Family businesses

  Buss, David, 178

  Cameron, James, 92

  Causes of behavior. See Proximate reasons; Ultimate reasons

  Changing preferences, 27–29, 34, 39–40, 46, 47–48

  Charlson, John, 130

  Cheater detection problem, 108–109

  Chen, Keith, 9

  Childhood

  environment during, influence of, on life history strategy, 134–137, 138–140, 140–141

  imprints from, surfacing of, times most likely for, 138–139

  Children

  birth of, and testosterone levels, 125

  equality matching and, 62

  fast versus slow strategies in, 128, 136–137

  inclusive fitness and, 57

  somatic effort and, 122

  talking versus writing and, 99–100

  violent environments and, 134

  Churchland, Patricia, 78

  Cialdini, Robert “Bob,” 28, 154, 196

  Clinton, Bill, 65

  Clooney, George, 89, 214–215

  Clustering illusion, 6–7

  Cognitive biases. See Bias

  Commensalism, 187, 194

  Communal sharing, 62

  See also Kinship game

  Computer analogy, 31–32

  Con men, 186, 188, 201–203, 204, 209

  Conditional logic, testing, 106–107, 108–109

  Confidence

  bias involving, 77, 91, 92–93, 94, 123

  essentialness of, 91–92

  Conflict, negotiating through, different approaches to, 51–53, 59

  Consensus bias, false, 76

  Conspicuous conservation, 149

  Conspicuous consumption

 

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