The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (196 page)

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romantic
 
and social class
 
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
 
nation-states
 
Native Americans:
 
and cannibalism
 
genocide of
 
Kennewick Man
 
of Pacific Northwest
 
revenge among
 
Trail of Tears
 
treatment of animals
 
violence among
 
NATO
 
natural resources
 
natural selection
 
nature, state of
 
Nazism:
 
and animal welfare
 
and Elias
 
and face-to-face killing
 
and genocide
 
in Germany
 
and Holocaust
 
ideology of
 
and nationalism
 
and World War II
 
Negroponte, John
 
Neolithic Revolution
 
neonaticide;
see also
infanticide
 
neoteny
 
nepotistic altruism;
see also
kin selection
 
Nero, Emperor
 
Netherlands
 
commerce in
 
Dutch War of Louis XIV
 
and great power wars
 
homicides in
 
War of Independence
 
network externalities
 
neurotransmitters;
see also
catecholamines; dopamine; MAO-A; norepinephrine; serotonin
 
neutron bomb
 
New England:
 
Boston police
 
homicides
 
Native Americans exterminated in
 
revolutionary Boston
 
New Guinea
 
New Netherland colony
 
New Peace
 
and climate change
 
and democracy
 
and genocide
 
introduction of concept
 
non-European war
 
and terrorism
 
Newton, Isaac
 
New York City:
 
draft riots (1863)
 
homicides in
 
police
 
Stonewall Inn riot
 
Nicaragua
 
Niebuhr, Reinhold
 
Nietzsche, Friedrich
 
9/11,
see
September 11 attacks
 
1960s
 
Nisbett, Richard
 
Nixon, Richard M.
 
Nobel, Alfred
 
Noble Savage myth
 
nonstate societies:
 
cooperation in
 
data sources of
 
deaths from warfare in
 
emergence of
 
fighting in
 
violence rates in
 
norepinephrine
 
normal distribution
 
norms:
 
of civilized society
 
and crime rates
 
of etiquette
 
evaluation of
 
informal
 
internalized
 
and morality
 
in 1960s counterculture
 
of nonviolence
 
of purity
 
social
 
tacit
 
territorial integrity
 
of war as immoral
 
see also
etiquette; moral sense; taboos
 
North Korea
 
noses:
 
blowing
 
cutting off
 
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
 
nuclear peace theory
 
nuclear taboo
 
nuclear terrorism
 
nuclear threat
 
nuclear weapons
 
Nunberg, Geoffrey
 
Nunn, Sam
 
Nuremberg Trials
 
nursery rhymes
 
Nurture Assumption
 
Nussbaum, Martha
 
 
Oatley, Keith
 
Obama, Barack
 
obedience;
see also
Milgram, Stanley
 
Odysseus
 
Oklahoma City bombing
 
Olds, James
 
Oneal, John
 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(film)
 
openness to experience
 
Operation Ceasefire
 
Opium Wars
 
Oppenheimer, Robert
 
opponent-process theory of emotion
 
optimal foraging
 
orientation, long- vs. short-term
 
Orwell, George
 
Otterbein, Keith
 
Ottoman Empire
 
Ötzi the Iceman
 
overconfidence
 
Owen, Wilfred
 
oxytocin
 
Oz, Amos
 
 
Pacification Process
 
civilization
 
human societies
 
introduction of concept
 
logic of violence
 
use of term
 
violence in human ancestors
 
violence in state and nonstate societies
 
Pacific Northwest
 
pacifism
 
Pacifist’s Dilemma
 
and empathy
 
and feminization
 
and gentle commerce
 
and Leviathan
 
and reason
 
Pakistan
 
Al Qaeda in
 
and India
 
and terrorism
 
Pale of Settlement
 
Palestine
 
Panksepp, Jaak
 
Papua New Guinea;
see also
New Guinea
 
Parachini, John
 
paramilitaries
 
Pareto, Vilfredo
 
Pareto Principle
 
Parker, Theodore
 
Parks, Rosa
 
Pascal, Blaise
 
pastoralism
 
Pate, Amy
 
Patrick, Saint
 
patrilocal societies
 
Patterson, Orlando
 
Patz, Etan
 
Pauling, Linus
 
Paul IV, Pope
 
Payne, James L.
 
peacekeepers, international
 
peace negotiations
 
peace theories
 
capitalist
 
democratic
 
Kantian
 
liberal
 
nuclear
 
pedomorphy
 
Peel, Sir Robert
 
Peloponnesian War
 
Pepys, Samuel
 
Perry, William
 
personality;
see also
antisocial personality disorder; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; borderline personality disorder; empathy; narcissistic personality disorder; openness to experience; psychopaths
 
perspective-sympathy hypothesis
 
perspective-taking;
see also
empathy; mentalizing; theory of mind
 
Peru
 
Peter, Saint
 
Pforspundt, Heinrich von
 
Philadelphia
 
Philippines
 
Piaget, Jean
 
Pillay, Navanethem
 
Pinker, Steven:
 
The Blank Slate
 
How the Mind Works
 
The Stuff of Thought
 
Pipes, Richard
 
piracy
 
pituitary gland
 
Pizarro, David
 
Plato
 
plausible deniability
 
pluralistic ignorance
 
Plutarch
 
Podhoretz, Norman
 
pogroms;
see also
ethnic riots, deadly
 
Poincaré, Henri
 
poison, repugnance about
 
poison gas;
see also
chemical weapons
 
Poisson, Siméon-Denis
 
Poisson process
 
Poland
 
polarization
 
police states,
use of term
 
political correctness
 
political discourse, sophistication of
 
Political Instability Task Force (PITF)
 
political murder;
see also
assassinations; despotism; regicide
 
politicide;
see also
genocide
 
politics, psychology of; see also liberalism, and conservatism; norms; taboos
 
Polity Project
 
Pol Pot
 
polygamy
 

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