Introduction: What Is Rationality?
PART I: ON ANGER AND COMMITMENT
CHAPTER 1: What Is the Point of Getting Annoyed? Emotions as a Mechanism for Creating Commitments
CHAPTER 2: Why We Love Those Who Are Cruel to Us: Stockholm Syndrome and the Story of the Nazi Schoolteacher
CHAPTER 3: Emotional Impostors, Empathy, and Uncle Ezra’s Poker Face
CHAPTER 4: Game Theory, Emotions, and the Golden Rule of Ethics
CHAPTER 5: The Prisoner’s Dilemma in Repeated Interactions: Do Drawn Knives Increase Cooperation in the World?
CHAPTER 6: On Decency, Insult, and Revenge: Why Don’t Suckers Suffer from Disgust?
PART II: ON TRUST AND GENEROSITY
CHAPTER 7: On Stigmas and Games of Trust: Why Did the Bees Commit Suicide?
CHAPTER 8: Self-Fulfilling Mistrust
CHAPTER 9: Cultural Differences, Palestinian Generosity, and Ruth’s Mysterious Disappearance
CHAPTER 10: Collective Emotions and Uncle Walter’s Trauma
CHAPTER 11: The Handicap Principle, the Ten Commandments, and Other Mechanisms for Ensuring Collective Survival
CHAPTER 12: Knowing How to Give, Knowing How to Receive: The Full Half of the Cholent
PART III: ON LOVE AND SEXUALITY
CHAPTER 13: The Spray That Will Give Us Love: On the Hormone that Creates Trust and Neutralizes Suspicion
CHAPTER 14: On Men, Women, and Evolution: Testing the Myths
CHAPTER 15: Make Me a Match Made in Heaven: Reproduction and the Mathematics of Romance
CHAPTER 16: From Cavemen Flutes to Bach Fugues: Why Did Evolution Create Art?
PART IV: ON OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM, AND GROUP BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 17: Why Are We So Negative? The Arithmetic of Emotions
CHAPTER 18: On Arrogance and Humility: The Norwegian Professor’s Syndrome
CHAPTER 19: Overconfidence and Risk: The “It Can’t Happen to Me” Syndrome
CHAPTER 20: The Voice Is Herd: On the Sources of Herd Behavior
CHAPTER 21: Team Spirit: The Paradox of the Generous Bonuses and the Lazy Workers
PART V: ON RATIONALITY, EMOTIONS, AND GENES
CHAPTER 22: Irrational Emotions
CHAPTER 23: Nature or Nurture: What Is the Source of Rational Emotions?