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Authors: Steven Pinker

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (198 page)

 
Rhee, Soo Hyun
 
Ricard, Samuel
 
Rich, Frank
 
Richards, Keith
 
Richardson, Lewis Fry
 
on magnitude of wars
 
on probability
 
on randomness
 
on timing of wars
 
Richardson, Samuel
 
Rifkin, Jeremy
 
rights, circle of;
see also
Expanding Circle, theory of; human rights
 
Rights Revolutions
 
animal rights
 
children’s rights
 
civil rights
 
and Enlightenment humanism
 
gay rights
 
and Humanitarian Revolution
 
introduction of concept
 
and technologies
 
use of terms
 
women’s rights
 
Rindermann, Heiner
 
risk perception,
see
fear
 
Rivers, Eugene
 
Rizzolatti, Giacomo
 
Robbers Cave study
 
Roberts, Adam
 
Robespierre, Maximilien
 
Robinson, Paul
 
robots
 
rock music
 
Rockwell, Norman
 
Roe v. Wade
 
Rolling Stones
 
Roman Empire
 
animals in
 
Carthage vs.
 
Colosseum in
 
crucifixion in
 
fall of
 
gladiators in
 
human life devalued in
 
infanticide in
 
Roman law
 
Roman Republic, slavery in
 
Romanticism
 
romantic militarism
 
romantic nationalism
 
Roosevelt, Eleanor
 
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
 
Roosevelt, Theodore
 
Rosenau, James
 
Rosenbaum, Ron
 
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
 
Rostand, Edmond,
Les Romantesques
 
Rostow, Elspeth
 
Roth, Randolph
 
Rothstein, Richard
 
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 
Rozin, Paul
 
Rubin, Jerry
 
Rule of Law measure
 
Rummel, Rudolf J.
 
Rumsfeld, Donald
 
Rush, Benjamin
 
Rushdie, Salman
 
Rusk, Dean
 
Ruskin, John
 
Russell, Bertrand
 
Russett, Bruce
 
Russia:
 
capital punishment in
 
civil war in
 
and Cold War,
see
USSR
 
compulsory military service in
 
crime in
 
peasant uprisings in
 
retaliation in
 
terrorism in
 
Time of Troubles
 
and World War I
 
Russian Revolution
 
Rwanda
 
Ryder, Norman
 
 
Saakashvili, Mikheil
 
sacred values
 
Sadat, Anwar
 
Sade, Marquis de
 
sadism
 
introduction of concept
 
psychology of
 
by serial killers
 
and torture
 
Sagan, Carl
 
Sagan, Scott
 
Sageman, Marc
 
Sailer, Steven
 
Saint Pierre, Abbé de
 
Salehyan, Idean
 
Salem witch trials
 
Salmon, Catherine
 
Sampson, Robert
 
Samuel
 
Sand Creek Massacre
 
Santayana, George
 
Sassoon, Siegfried
 
SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)
 
satire
 
Saudi Arabia
 
Saul, King
 
Saunders, J. J.
 
savage,
use of term
 
Saxe, Rebecca
 
Sayers, Dorothy L.
 
Scandinavia
 
homicides in
 
Scarpa, Angela
 
schadenfreude;
see also
sadism
 
Schama, Simon
 
Schechter, Harold
 
Schell, Jonathan
 
Schelling, Friedrich
 
Schelling, Thomas
 
schools:
 
corporal punishment in
 
education in
 
weapons in
 
see also
education
 
Schwager, Raymund
 
Schweitzer, Albert
 
Schwerner, Michael
 
science, value system of
 
scientific reasoning;
see also
modernity
 
Scientific Revolution
 
Scotland
 
Scott, Sir Walter
 
Scully, Diana
 
Seabrook, John
 
security dilemma;
see also
Hobbesian trap
 
Seeking system
 
Seinfeld, Jerry
 
self-control
 
and Civilizing Process
 
and counterculture
 
and crime
 
and ego depletion
 
and etiquette
 
and experience
 
fatigue of
 
heritability of
 
and human brain
 
and intelligence
 
introduction of concept
 
language of
 
measures of
 
and reason
 
sexual
 
strategies of
 
self-deception
 
self-determination
 
self-domestication
 
self-esteem
 
self-help justice
 
self-organized criticality
 
self-serving biases
 
Seligman, Martin
 
Semai people
 
sensation seeking;
see also
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
 
September 11 attacks
 
Serbia
 
serial killers
 
serotonin
 
Servetus, Michael
 
Sesame Street
(TV)
 
Seven Years’ War
 
sexism;
see also
women, attitudes toward; women, male control of; women, as property; women, rights of
 
sex ratio
 
sexual abuse
 
sexual jealousy
 
sexual revolution
 
sexual sadism
 
sexual selection, theory of
 
sexual self-control
 
Shaka (Zulu)
 
Shakespeare, William
 
Falstaff
 
Henry IV, Part I,
 
Henry V,
 
King Lear
 
Measure for Measure
 
The Merchant of Venice
 
Portia
 
Shylock
 
Titus Andronicus
 
Shasta County, California, ranchers
 
Shaw, George Bernard
 
Sheehan, James
 
Shen, Francis X.
 
Shepard, Matthew
 
Shergill, Sukhwinder
 
Sherriff, R. C.
 
Shikaki, Khalil
 
Shotland, Lance
 
Shultz, George
 
Shweder, Richard
 
Sidanius, Jim
 
siege,
use of term
 
Silence of the Lambs, The
(film)
 
Simon, Paul
 
Simon, Robert
 
Simonton, Dean
 
Singapore
 
Singer, Peter:
 
Animal Liberation
 
The Expanding Circle
 
Singer, Tania
 
sins, seven deadly
 
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
 
six degrees of separation
 
Skenazy, Lenore
 
skepticism
 
slavery
 
abolition of
 
in American South
 
death toll of
 
and debt bondage
 
first-person accounts of
 
history of
 
human trafficking
 
and Islam
 
and religion

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