INDEX
Abortion
Accidental conditioning
Accommodation, need for
Adoption
Advertising
Afterlife beliefs
AIBO (robot)
Akalis, Scott
Albas, Cheryl
Albas, Daniel
Alief
Allan, Keith
Allen, Woody
Alou, Moises
Alternative medicine
Altruism, anonymous
Anal fetishism
Angyal, Andras
Animal-assisted therapy
Animal rights
Animals
Animism
Anthrax (band)
Anthrax scare
Anthropomorphism
Apollo program
Apophenia
Apple Computer
Archaic Revival, The (McKenna)
Ariely, Dan
Arndt, Jamie
Aronson, Joshua
Asch, Solomon
Astrology
Astronomy
Atheism
Attachment objects
Attraction, law of
Auld Sod Export Company
Austin, J. L.
Authentic objects
Availability heuristic
Awe
Backward contagion
Badcock, Christopher
Banality
Bargh, John
Barham, Jay
Barrett, Justin
Bartman, Steve
“Baseball Magic” (Gmelch)
Baumeister, Roy
Beatles, the
Beck, Glenn
Becker, Ernest
Belief Instinct, The (Bering)
Bennett, Cindy
Bennett, Randy
Bentham, Jeremy
Bering, Jesse
Berra, Yogi
Bettelheim, Bruno
Betts, Dickey
Biancaniello, Mark
Bigfoot
Biological contamination
Biosocial mode of symbolic immortality
Birren, James
Bjorklund, David
Blackmore, Susan
Blame-the-victim effect
Blanke, Olaf
Blind Watchmaker, The (Dawkins)
Bloom, Paul
Body image
Boggs, Wade
Böhme, Jakob
Bohr, Niels
Boston Red Sox
Boyer, Pascal
Brain
Brief History of Time, A (Hawking)
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.
Brown, Norman
Brugger, Peter
Burial
Burke, Kenneth
Burridge, Kate
Buss, David
Byrne, Rhonda
Cacioppo, John
Calhoun, Lawrence
Cannibalism
Cannon, Walter
Capgras delusion
Cardiac arrest
Carlin, George
Carter, Jimmy
Carter, Pierre
Cartesian dualism
Cast Away (movie)
Castignoli, Gino
Castillo, Luis
Castle, Jen
Causation, theory of
Chalmers, David
Chapman, Mark David
Chi (qi)
Chicago Cubs
Cho, Seung-Hui
Choice overload effect
Chopra, Deepak
Christmas
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens)
Cicero
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)
Clairvoyance
Clothing, lucky
Clustering illusion
Coffee and Cigarettes (movie)
Cognitive biases
Cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive therapy
Cohen, Jonathan
Coincidences
Colburn, Keith
Columbine High School
Compulsions
Computer-human interaction
Concentration camps
Confirmation bias
Consciousness
Consubstantiation
Contagion, law of
Control
belief in external
illusion of
need for
Cooties
Cotard delusion
Counterfactual thinking
Craps and Magic (Henslin)
Creative mode of symbolic immortality
Creativity
Criminal justice system
Crop circles
Crossing fingers
Curse of the Bambino
Damisch, Lysann
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Erik
Dawkins, Richard
Day, Mike
De Beauvoir, Simone
Death
Defecation
Dehumanization
Denial of Death, The (Becker)
Dennett, Daniel
DePorter, Grant
Depression
Depressive realism
Descartes, René
Descartes’ Baby (Bloom)
Desmond, Matthew
Diaconis, Persi
Dick, Philip K.
Didion, Joan
Disgust
Doctrine of Signatures
Dopamine
Dreams
Dualism
Dunne, John
Dying to Live (Blackmore)
Eagleman, David
Eating habits
Edwards, Ashleigh
Edwards, Paul
Effectance motivation
Egocentrism
Einstein, Albert
Elevators
Eliade, Mircea
Embodied cognition, principle of
Energy healing
Enzle, Michael
Epiphenomenalism
Episodic memory
Epley, Nicholas
Error management theory
ESP (extra-sensory perception)
Essence, objects and
Essentialism
Euthanasia
Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
Evil eye, belief in
Evolutionary psychology
Exams
Existence bias
Existential Psychotherapy (Yalom)
Existentialism
External locus of control
Fabiano, Luis
Faces in the Clouds (Guthrie)
Falk, Ruma
False consensus effect
Farmer, Steven
Farrow, Mia
Fatalism
Fate, tempting
Fate perception
Feedback
Feng shui
Fetishes
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Feynman, Richard
Fight Club (movie)
Fisher, Laurel
Fishing
Flag burning
Flow, state of
Flying
Ford, Gerald
Fortes, Meyer
Forward contagion
Frankl, Victor
Frazee, Harry
Frazer, Sir James George
Frazier, Brandy
Free will
French, Chris
Freud, Sigmund
Freudianism
Fuller, Harry
Fuller, Nicola
Fusiform face area (FFA)
Galinsky, Adam
Gallup, Gordon, Jr.
Gamblers
Gambler’s fallacy
Gao, Jia-Hong
Gelman, Susan
Gendler, Tamar
Germs
Ghosts
Gilbert, Daniel
Gilovich, Thomas
Gmelch, George
God
God Delusion, The (Dawkins)
God Is Not Great (Hitchens)
Golden Bough, The (Frazer)
Goldenberg, Jamie
Goldstein, Elisha
Gopnik, Alison
Gosling, Sam
Graphology
Gratitude
Gray, Heather
Gray, Kurt
Greenberg, Jeff
Greene, Joshua
Gulf War
Guthrie, Stewart
Haidt, Jonathan
Half belief
Handey, Jack
Hand washing
Handwriting
Haque, Omar Sultan
Hargrove, Mike
Harris, Eric
Harvard University
Haselton, Martie
Haunted houses
Hawking, Stephen
Health
Heider, Fritz
Henslin, James
Heroism
Herrera, Nicholas
Heuristics
Heywood, Bethany
Hiroshima
Historicity
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf
Hodge, Mitch
Holly, Buddy
Holy icons
Homeopathy
Hood, Bruce
Horn, Roy
Horowitz, Alexandra
Horseshoes
How to Do Things with Words (Austin)
Howell, Signe
Human-computer interaction
Humanism
Hume, David
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Rita
Ian, Scott
Illusory correlation
“Imagine” (Lennon)
Immanent-justice reasoning
Indian Ocean tsunami (2004)
Infertility
Initiation ceremonies
Insane Clown Posse (ICP)
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Insurance
Intuitive thinking
Irish soil
Irrationality, rationality of
Israel
Jackson, Samuel L.
James, William
Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie
Jarmusch, Jim
Jennings, Hollis
Jesus
Jeter, Derek
Jinxes
Jobs, Steve
Johansson, Scarlett
Johnson, Dominic
Jung, Carl
Just world theory
Kahneman, Daniel
Kant, Immanuel
Karate Kid, The (movie)
Karma
Kay, Aaron
Kearl, Michael
Keil, Frank
Keinan, Giora
Keleman, Deborah
Keltner, Dacher
Kesebir, Pelin
Kierkegaard, Søren
King, Laura
Kinning of Foreigners, The (Howell)
Klebold, Dylan
Klevan, Miriam
Knobe, Joshua
Knocking on wood
Kokura, Japan
Kosher food
Kray, Laura
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Kuhl, David
Ladders, walking
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde)
LaGrone, Libra
Lake Wobegon effect
Lakoff, George
Langer, Ellen
Learned helplessness
Leary, Timothy
Lennon, John
piano of
Leno, Jay
Lerner, Melvin
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Levodopa
Libet, Benjamin
Lieberson, Stanley
Life support
Lifton, Robert Jay
Like-causes-like heuristic
Lindemann, Marjaana
Loneliness
Lorenz, Edward
Lotteries
Lovell, Jim
LSD
Luck
Lucky charms
Lupfer, Michael
Lynn, Fred
MacDougall, Duncan
Magic and the Mind (Subbotsky)
Magical contagion
Mahoney, Annette
Malinowski, Bronisław
Man in the High Castle, The (Dick)
Mana
Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl)
Manson, Charles
Manteleone, George
Mantras
Marette, Dorothy
Maslow, Abraham
Math exams
Mather, Cotton
Matsen, Bradford
Matute, Helena
McAdams, Dan
McCabe, Gail
McKenna, Terence
Meanings of Life (Baumeister)
Medication color
Meditation
Meiwes, Armin
Mencken, H. L.
Mental associations
Mere ownership effect
Metacognition
Metanoia (change of mind)
Metaphor therapy
Metaphors
Michael, George
Michotte, Albert
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Dale
Millman, Linda
Mind over matter
Mirror neurons
Mirror test
Mitchell, Edgar
Mitchell, Silas Weir
Moir-Smith, Allison
Morality
Morewedge, Carey
Morphology
Mortality salience hypothesis
Mossman, Amanda
Mosteller, Frederick
Mount Herzl cemetery, Israel
Mummification
Nagasaki
Nagel, Thomas
Nagin, Ray
Name belief
Narrative psychology
Nash, John
Nass, Clifford
National flag
Natural selection
Near-death experiences (NDEs)
Near misses
Negative agency bias
Negative scenarios
Nelson, Kevin
Nelson, Lord Horatio
Nemeroff, Carol
Nettle, Daniel
New Age movement
New York Yankees
New Yorker
Newman, George
Nichols, Shaun
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nihilism
Nisbett, Richard
Nominal realism
Norenzayan, Ara
Number superstitions
Nursing home residents
Oaths
Obama, Barack
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Occam’s razor
Offline social reasoning
Ohms, Jim
Olson, Kristina
Omission bias
On Death and Dying (Kübler-Ross)
On the Fireline (Desmond)
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Ono, Koichi
Ono, Yoko
Optimal distinctiveness
Optimism
Organ transplantation
Ortiz, David
Ouija boards
Out-of-body experiences
Overconfidence
Overthinking
Paralysis victims
Paratroopers
Pareidolia
Parfit, Derek
Pargament, Kenneth
Paro (personal robot)
Patternicity
Patterns, search for
Paumgarten, Nick
Peak experiences
Peat, F. David
Penzel, Fred
Performatives
Pets
Phantom limbs
Photographs
Physics of Immortality, The (Tipler)
Piaget, Jean
Pilette, Wilfrid
Pineal gland
PK (psychokinesis)
Poggie, John
Poi metaphor
Polanski, Roman
Pollnac, Richard
Positive thinking
Possession
Powerlessness, admission of
Prayer
Precognition
Predestination
Presidential elections 1976, 44 2008
Preston, Jesse
Primary emotions
Primary metaphors
Primitive Culture (Tylor)
Primitive people
Princeton University
Pronin, Emily
Property dualism
Prosopopoeia
Psilocybin
Punishment, motivations for
Pyszczynski, Tom
Racism
Rank, Otto
Readiness potential (RP)
Rebirthing movement
Referential thinking
Regression to the mean
Reincarnation
Release ceremonies
Religion
Retributivism
Rice, Jim
Richardson, Wes
Risen, Jane
Rituals
Robots
Roddenberry, Gene
Rodin, Judith
Roese, Neal
Rolland, Romain
Roomba (robot)
Roosa, Stuart
Rosemary’s Baby (movie)
Ross, Lee
Rosset, Evelyn
Routledge, Clay
Rozin, Paul
Rudski, Jeffrey
Russell, Bertrand
Ruth, Babe
Sacred and the Profane, The (Eliade)
Sacred objects
Sacredness, sense of
“Sadder but wiser” phenomenon
Sanskrit
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Savitsky, Kenneth
Schizophrenia
Scholl, Brian
Schooler, Jonathan
Schrock, Gladden
Schwartz, Barry
Schwarzer, Mark
Scrooge effect
Secondary emotions
Secret, The (Byrne)
SEEK (Sociality, Effectance, and Elicited agent Knowledge)
Seligman, Martin
Sentimentality
Seven (number)
Sexual act
Sexual violation
Shaggy 2 Dope
Shakespeare, William
Shariff, Azim
Shaw, George Bernard
Shepard, Alan
Shermer, Michael
Shibata, Takanori
Shiota, Michelle
Shweder, Richard
Sianis, William
Similarity, law of
Simmel, Marianne
Simulation constraint hypothesis
Singer, Irving
Skinner, B. F.
Soil
Solomon, Sheldon
Sosis, Richard
Soul
Spears, Britney
Sperber, Dan
Spiritual-mystical states
Steele, Claude
Steger, Michael
Steinbrenner, George
Steinbrenner, Hank
Stenger, Victor
Stereotype threat
Stewart, Jon
Stinson, Kenny Bill
String theory
Stronger associations
Subbotsky, Eugene
Substance dualism
Suffering
benefits of
blame for
Suicide
SuperSense (Hood)
Superstition
“‘Superstition’ in the Pigeon” (Skinner)
Swigert, John
Symbolic immortality
Symbols
Sympathetic magic
Synchronicity
Synchronicity (Peat)
System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, A (Mill)
Taboos
Tate, Sharon
Taylor, Brian
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Davis)
Tedeschi, Richard
Teigen, Karl
Teleological reasoning
Telepathy
Television viewing
Terror management theory (TMT)
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Theism
Theory of mind
Thirteen (number)
Tipler, Frank
Transcendence
Transubstantiation
Trobriander Islanders
True, Carol
Truly large numbers, law of
Tversky, Amos
Tykocinski, Orit
Tylor, Sir E. B.
Unamuno, Miguel de
Unweaving the Rainbow (Dawkins)
Utilitarian punishment
Valentinus
Van Gogh, Vincent
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (James)
Vastness, sense of
Vegetarianism
Vey, P. C.
Vibes
Violent J
Virginia Tech
Visualization
Vivas, Gabriel
Vohs, Kathleen
Voodoo
Voutsinas, Alex
Voutsinas, Donna
Wave-particle duality
Wax on, wax off approach
Way of the Explorer, The (Mitchell)
Waytz, Adam
Weddings
Wegner, Daniel
White, Robert
Whitson, Jennifer
Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
Wilde, Oscar
Wilson, Alice
Wisdom
Wiseman, Richard
Witchcraft
Wohl, Michael
Wolf, Sharon
Woo, Little
Word pseudomagic
World Cup soccer
Worldview defense
Wow factor
Wrigley, P. K.
Xenophanes
Yalom, Irvin
Yankee Stadium
Year of Magical Thinking, The (Didion)
Young, Maia
Young, Stephen
Zen Buddhism
Zombie