The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (197 page)

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polygyny
 
Pope, Alexander
 
population growth
 
populism
 
pornography
 
Portugal
 
positive illusions;
see also
overconfidence
 
positive-sum games;
see also
gentle commerce
 
postmodernism
 
Potts, Malcolm
 
poverty
 
Powell, Colin
 
power-law distributions
 
and coalitions
 
80:20 rule
 
of genocides
 
scale-free nature of
 
of terrorism
 
thick tails of
 
of wars
 
practical violence,
see
predatory violence
 
praetorian regimes;
see also
anocracy
 
Pran, Dith
 
Pratto, Felicia
 
predatory violence
 
cause of war
 
against groups
 
introduction of concept
 
means-end reasoning
 
and overconfidence
 
predictions
 
of science
 
statistical
 
predictions, erroneous:
 
abolishing capital punishment as increasing violence
 
abolishing debt bondage as doom of capitalism
 
abortions as leading to infanticide and child abuse
 
African American terrorism
 
crime boom in 1990s
 
democracy as obsolescent
 
9/11-style attacks weekly
 
nuclear arms race in East Asia
 
nuclear attacks during Cold War
 
nuclear nations by the dozen
 
nuclear terrorism by 2005
 
victories in war
 
wars with assorted countries
 
war with Iran
 
World War III as inevitable
 
World War IV as inevitable
 
preferential attachment;
see also
Matthew Effect
 
Price, Richard
 
Princip, Gavrilo
 
printing press
 
PRIO Battle Deaths Dataset
 
Prisoner’s Dilemma
 
Iterated
 
Pacifist’s Dilemma
 
and Public Goods game
 
sequential
 
Tit for Tat
 
and Ultimatum game
 
violence as
 
probability
 
Profumo, John
 
proletarianization
 
Promise Keepers
 
proportionality
 
prosperity
 
prostitution
 
Prudentius
 
Prunier, Gérard
 
psychological hedonism
 
psychology:
 
age of
 
awareness of
 
cognitive
 
evolutionary
 
folk;
see also
mentalizing; theory of mind
 
philosophy vs.
 
social
 
see also
aggression; brain; cognitive illusions; emotions; moral sense
 
psychopaths;
see also
antisocial personality disorder
 
Public Goods game
 
Punch and Judy shows
 
Punic Wars
 
punishment:
 
in autocracies
 
and the brain
 
capital
 
of children
 
and criminal justice system
 
cruel and unusual
 
and deterrence
 
executions
 
vs. incapacitation
 
incarceration
 
and incomplete justice
 
and just deserts
 
legitimate use of
 
and moralization
 
and repentance
 
for sins
 
spanking
 
torture
 
Purcell, Ed
 
Purity, ethic of;
see also
disgust; Divinity, ethic of
 
Pushkin, Aleksandr
 
Pynchon, Thomas
 
Pyrrhic Victory
 
Pythagoras
 
 
Qatar, slavery abolished in
 
Quakers
 
Québec
 
Quervain, Dominique de
 
 
race riots
 
racial pogroms
 
racism
 
in children
 
decline of
 
and gender
 
psychology of
 
as “root cause” of crime
 
use of term
 
see also
social dominance
 
radical chic
 
radiological (dirty) bombs
 
Rage circuit
 
raiding
 
Raine, Adrian
 
Rajneeshee cult
 
rampage;
see also
forward panic
 
randomness
 
rape
 
awareness of
 
as crime
 
definitions of
 
gender differences in conception of
 
and human sexuality
 
marital
 
outside U.S.
 
prevention and response
 
and race
 
rates of
 
underreported
 
rat, brain of
 
rational actor theory
 
rationalization;
see also
cognitive dissonance
 
Rational-Legal model
 
Rauschenbusch, Walter
 
Ray, James Lee
 
Reading Revolution
 
Reagan, Ronald
 
realism:
 
moral
 
theory in political science
 
reason
 
Age of Reason
 
and community
 
escalator of
 
guided
 
and intelligence
 
introduction of concept
 
and Pacifist’s Dilemma
 
as pacifying force
 
passions vs.
 
universality of
 
reciprocal altruism,
see
altruism, reciprocal; reciprocity
 
reciprocity;
see also
Equality Matching; evolutionary psychology, analysis of cooperation
 
reconciliation
 
Reformation
 
regicide;
see also
assassinations
 
relational models
 
direction of change in
 
and humor
 
and morality
 
religion
 
Age of Religions
 
and apostates
 
and blasphemy
 
Catholics vs. Protestants
 
compartmentalization of ideology
 
early Christian church
 
faith
 
and heresy
 
and human sacrifice
 
and infanticide
 
and inquisitions
 
and intercommunal conflict
 
intolerance in U.S.
 
Islam,
see
Islamic states
 
martyrs of
 
and peace
 
Reformation
 
and slavery
 
social effects of
 
souls vs. lives
 
and suicide terrorism
 
theocracies
 
traditions in
 
and violence
 
wars of
 
see also
Bible; God
 
Remarque, Erich Maria
 
Renaissance
 
Renoir, Jean
 
Republic of Letters
 
reputation:
 
for goodness
 
for toughness
 
resource curse
 
resource determinism
 
responsibility, diffusion of
 
ressentiment
 
restorative justice
 
retaliation;
see also
revenge
 
revenge
 
and counterempathy
 
in cultures of honor
 
cutting off noses for
 
excess
 
fantasies of
 
in foraging societies
 
introduction of concept
 
modulation of
 
as motive for war
 
psychology of
 
and sadism
 
and terrorism
 
Reynolds, Malvina

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