The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (193 page)

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Authors: Steven Pinker

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slavery
 
superstitious killing
 
human life, value placed on
 
human nature:
 
and conservatism
 
constancy of
 
motives of
 
psychological history of
 
theories of
 
universal
 
and violence
 
see also
human beings
 
human rights:
 
and capital punishment
 
and corporal punishment of children
 
and criminalization of homosexuality
 
Helsinki Accords
 
and Humanitarian Revolution
 
vs. nationalism
 
principle of
 
and social contract
 
Universal Declaration
 
Human Rights Watch
 
human sacrifice
 
Human Security Report Project (HSRP)
 
human trafficking
 
human universals
 
Hume, David
 
humor
 
Humphrey, Hubert H.
 
Humphrey, Robert
 
Hundred Years’ War
 
Hungary
 
Hunt, Lynn
 
hunter-gatherers
 
data sources for
 
deaths from warfare
 
rates of violence
 
hunter-horticulturalists
 
data sources for
 
deaths from warfare
 
rates of violence
 
hunting
 
Huntington, Samuel
 
Hussein, Saddam
 
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
 
hydraulic theory
 
hyperbolic discounting
 
 
identity politics
 
ideology
 
Age of Ideology
 
blood and soil
 
Christian
 
and cognitive dissonance reduction
 
compartmentalization of
 
and conformity
 
decline of
 
and enforcement
 
and genocide
 
introduction of concept
 
militant
 
and Moralization Gap
 
Nazism
 
and pluralistic ignorance
 
and polarization
 
and relational models
 
and suicide terrorists
 
IGOs (intergovernmental organizations)
 
Incas
 
inclusive fitness
 
independence, of new nations;
see also
decolonization
 
Index of Forbidden Books
 
India:
 
caste system in
 
death toll in
 
emergence of agriculture
 
famine in
 
female infanticide in
 
human sacrifice in
 
Muslim invaders of
 
and nuclear capability
 
and Pakistan
 
socialism in
 
suttee in
 
terrorism in
 
wars in
 
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(film)
 
Indonesia
 
Industrial Revolution
 
inequality, economic, and violence
 
infanticide
 
and cultural norms
 
in fairy tales
 
female
 
male
 
taboo against
 
triage theory
 
“In Flanders Fields,”
 
informalizing process
 
information:
 
and dominance
 
and morality
 
spread of
 
and technology
 
see also
cosmopolitanism
 
Innocent IV, Pope
 
Innocent X, Pope
 
Inquisition
 
instrumental violence,
see
predatory violence
 
integrative complexity
 
intelligence:
 
and cooperation
 
and democracy
 
and economic literacy
 
general (
g
)
 
heritabity of
 
IQ tests
 
and liberalism
 
and reason
 
rise in,
see
Flynn Effect
 
and self-control
 
and sophistication of political discourse
 
and violence
 
intercommunal conflict
 
interest:
 
compound
 
and self-control
 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 
Intermale Aggression circuit;
see also
dominance
 
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
 
Interpol
 
Inuit people
 
IQ tests
 
Iran
 
Iran-Iraq War
 
Iraq
 
Al Qaeda in (AQI)
 
civilian deaths in
 
Kuwait invaded by
 
nuclear capability of
 
U.S.-led invasion of
 
and USS
Stark
 
Iraq Body Count
 
Ireland
 
human sacrifice in
 
immigrants from
 
wars in
 
irredentism
 
Isaiah
 
Islamic states:
 
acts of barbarity
 
autocratic
 
civilization in
 
conflicts in
 
and genocide
 
India invaded by
 
liberalizing forces in
 
and nuclear weapons
 
population of
 
punishment in
 
and religious wars
 
and Sharia law
 
and slavery
 
and terrorism
 
women in
 
Israel
 
and nuclear capability
 
and Palestine
 
and peace with Egypt
 
and Six-Day War
 
and terrorism
 
Israelites, ancient
 
Italy
 
fascism in
 
homicides in
 
militant nationalism in
 
terrorism in
 
torture in
 
unification
 
violence in
 
 
Jackson, Andrew
 
Jack the Ripper
 
Jacobi, Friedrich
 
Jagger, Mick
 
Jamaica
 
James, William
 
James II, king of England
 
Janis, Irving
 
Japan
 
as great power
 
historical amnesia in
 
human sacrifice in
 
kamikaze pilots
 
militant nationalism in
 
and nuclear power
 
and terrorism
 
and world wars
 
Japanese Americans, in World War II
 
Jefferson, Thomas
 
Jefferson Airplane
 
Jerome, Saint
 
Jervis, Robert
 
Jesus
 
acceptance as savior
 
crucifixion of
 
Jews:
 
anti-Semitism
 
dietary laws of
 
and Holocaust,
see
Holocaust
 
legal equality granted to
 
massacres of
 
as moneylenders
 
and Pale of Settlement
 
see also
Bible, Old Testament; Israelites, ancient
 
Jivaro people
 
Joe the Plumber
 
Johnson, Dominic
 
Johnson, Lyndon B.
 
Johnson, Michael
 
Johnson, Mordecai
 
Johnson, Neil
 
Johnson, Samuel
 
Jonassohn, Kurt
 
Jones, Garrett
 
Jones, Lisa
 
Jones, Tom
 
Jordan
 
Jordan, Michael
 
Joshua
 
Josiah, King
 
Julius Caesar
 
Jung Chang
 
just deserts
 
justice system
 
and conflict reduction
 
and control of violence
 
coroner
 

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