The Elephant in the Brain_Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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by Robin Hanson

Twain, Mark,80, 232

  Twitter,164

  unconscious

  Darwinian notion of,315n.4

  racial biases,315n.7

  United Way,207, 216, 220

  Upworthy (website),347n.53

  U.S. Marine Corps,185

  Veblen, Thorstein,7, 169, 199, 331n.4

  Vietnam War,82

  virtue,309–310

  visual arts,188b

  visual dominance ratio,124–125

  vocalization, laughter,133

  The Voice (television show),287

  votergasm.org,350n.44

  voting

  appeal of badges,294–296

  decisiveness,286–287

  disdain for compromise,299, 350n.48

  expressive vs. instrumental,294–295

  one-dimensional politics,299–300

  political motives,284–286

  retrospective,349n.19

  uninformed voters,287–288, 349n.19

  U.S. Electoral College system,348n.7

  Wallace, David Foster,198

  warm glow theory, charity,211–212, 335–336n.21

  waste,201–202. See alsosacrifice

  wealth

  charity,219

  conspicuous consumption,7, 169–174

  education,236

  medicine and,255

  weapons,50–51b

  Weber, Eugen,240

  Weeden, Jason,272

  West, Patrick,217

  The West Wing (television show),98

  Wharton, Edith,67

  Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite (Kurzban),77

  Why We Talk (Dessalles),151

  Wilde, Oscar,147

  Wilson, Timothy,8, 99–100, 102

  Wiltermuth, Scott,273

  wishful thinking,74

  wordplay, laughter,136–137

  work,169, 330–331n.2

  Wright, Robert,7, 315n.4

  Zahavi, Amotz,20, 22

  Zappos, advertising,179

  Zhao Gao,83–84

 

 

 


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