Index

A

adoption 184, 200, 175; same sex 125, 237; studies 189–90

Adorno, Theodor 25, 31, 99–101, 103, 115

allele 177, 178, 183, 191, 228, 231; splicing 194; variation 206, 208, 215–16; heritability 211, 213

Altemeyer, Robert 102, 115, 189

Amodio, David 155, 170,

amygdala 20, 65, 154, 156, 158, 197, 231

androstenone 113–14

Angell, DeeAnn 173–5, 183, 184, 199

anteaters 205–8, 216

anterior cingulate cortex 20, 154–6, 198

Aristotle 37–8, 40, 41, 44, 45, 49, 50

Arovosis, John 243

art 90, 94–5, 104–5, 110–11, 143

Asperger’s Disorder 76–7

assortative mating 39

authoritarian(ism) 43, 45, 97, 113, 124, 186, 189; authoritarian personality 25, 98–107

authority (obedience to) 59–65, 86

autism 76–8

automatism 82

autonomic nervous system (ANS) 6, 153, 159, 166, 169, 247

B

baloney generator 20–1, 26,

Baron-Cohen, Simon 78, 88

BeanFest 136–8, 154

bedrock (social) dilemmas/principles 37, 41, 44–6, 48, 49–50, 52, 55–6

behaviorally relevant biological predispositions 86, 196, 246–8

behaviorism 67–70

Belyaev, Dmitri 180, 211

Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire 168

Berlin, Isaiah 72

Big Five Personality Index 16, 103–4, 110

Bin Laden, Osama 24, 239

Bloch-Elkon, Yaeli 240–1

Boas, Franz 72, 73

Bouchard, Thomas 189, 200–1, 270

brain imaging 20, 24, 26, 157

Buckley, Jr., William F. 1–4, 12, 28, 40, 45, 51

Bush, George W. 42, 48, 93, 239–40, 242

C

Cameron, David 142, 193

Capote, Truman 59

Carney, Dana 95, 115, 268

Cashdan, Elizabeth 217, 233

Center for Responsive Politics 96

central nervous system (CNS) 149, 152, 169

Chambers, Alan 84–6

Charney, Evan 32, 201, 235, 249

City College of New York 33–7, 42, 45

Cochran, Gregory 88, 203, 210–13, 226, 233–4

(cognitive) closure 105, 124, 137, 231

communism 27, 34–5, 46, 99

conscientiousness 8, 103; and ideology 14–19, 104, 110–11; and tastes and preferences 104–7, 137; and cognitive closure 105, 124; and RWA 107

Converse, Philip 27, 32, 56–7

core values 108–9

correlated/correlate/correlations 14–19

corrugator supercilii 168–9

cortisol 151, 169

Cosmides, Leda 88, 211, 223, 233–4

Costa, Paul 104, 115

D

Damasio, Antonio 83, 88

determinism 26, 72, 243, 264

dictator games 62–3

disgust 135, 147, 151, 162, 163, 164, 167, 168, 191; sensitivity to 21, 22, 26, 110, 162, 163; and moral foundations 106–7, 161, 162, 163; facial expressions 135–6; images 136, 161, 163, 164

dizygotic (DZ) twins 185–9

Dodd, Mike 120, 130, 144–5

dopamine 150, 179, 191, 197

dot-probe 124, 126, 133

DRD4 191–2, 197

Durkheim, Emile 72, 88

E

Eagleman, David 20, 30, 88, 199, 201

Eaves, Lindon 186

electroencephalogram (EEG) 155

eidetic imagery 98–9

Einstein, Albert 34, 200

electrodermal activity (EDA) 26, 152, 159–65

electromyography (EMG) 26, 168, 244

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 11, 12, 224

endocrine/endocrinology 20, 24, 169

epigenetics 179, 230

equipotentiality 68

ethnocentrism 100, 181–3, 220, 223, 226

eugenics 245

event response potential (ERP) 155

evolution 68, 69, 207–8, 214, 215, 216–17, 243, 245; and faces 128, 135; and images 131; and disgust 162; and reproduction 178; attitudes toward 203–4; and groups 218–21; and politics 218–21, 223, 224

evolutionary psychology 86, 225; and behaviorism 69, 210, 212, 231; and personality 70, 211; environment of evolutionary adaptiveness 217

Exodus International 84

eyetracking 26, 129–33

Eyesenck, Hans 101

F

false consensus 247, 260

false equivalency 5

fascist/fascism 27, 51, 59, 99–101, 115

Faulkner, William 150

Fazio, Russell 136–45

Firth, Colin 147, 153, 154, 156, 170

flanker task 124–33

Fowler, James 191, 201

Fox News 3, 6

Fox, Arthur 112

Franken, Al 3, 200, 273

Frenkel-Brunswick, Else 100

Freud(ian) 59, 101, 118

fruit flies 175, 183, 209; and beer 89–90, 112; reproductive behavior 178, 194–6, 230

functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) 155, 157–8

G

Gage, Phineas 148–50

Gallup 253, 262

Garcia, John 68, 88

gay (same-sex) marriage 237, 262; issue position 16, 37, 43, 125; and disgust 162–3

gaze cuing 26, 119–24, 143

Gilbert and Sullivan 25, 28

Gladwell, Malcolm 73–5, 88

global warming (climate change) 9, 19, 22, 37, 140, 151, 251

Goldberg, Lewis 104, 115

Gould, Stephen Jay 243–4

Graham, Jesse 31, 106–107, 116

Gross, James 56, 168, 171,

group evolution 218–26

genome wide association study (GWAS) 38, 190, 192

H

Haidt, Jonathan 30, 31, 106, 107, 110, 116, 171, 200, 222, 225, 234, 255, 264,

happiness set point 23

Harlow, Harry 67, 68, 88

Harpending, Henry 88, 203, 210, 212, 213, 226, 233, 234

Haston, Robert 7, 30, 200, 233, 234

Hatemi, Pete 190, 191, 201

heart rate 20, 151–3

hippocampus 20, 194, 196

Hitler 42, 47, 62, 100, 209

Hobbes, Thomas 71–2, 88, 221, 242

homosexuals/homosexuality 84, 102, 127, 253–4

hormones 149, 151, 169, 177, 196–7, 213

hot cognition 22, 26

Howe, Irving 35–6

Huey, Edmund 129, 144

humor 6, 25, 87, 90, 95, 110

Hunch.com 91–3, 114

Huntington’s Disease 182, 209

Hussein, Saddam 48, 239, 240

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) 151

hypothalamus 20, 196

I

International Affective Picture System (IAPS) 126, 130–4

insular cortex 20

J

Jaensch, Erich 98–9, 115

Jencks, Christopher 227, 234

John, Oliver 168

Jost, John 27, 30–3, 57, 116, 145, 268

K

Kanai, Ryota 154, 156, 170

Kennedy, John F. 117, 149

Kirkpatrick, Jeane 227–8

Kristol, Irving 36, 56

L

Laertius, Diogenes 37

Lakoff, George 256–7, 265

Laponce, J. A. 51, 57

Lavin, Christine 173, 196, 268

Leibniz, Gottfried 19–21

Levinson, Daniel 100

Lewis, Jim 183–4, 189

Libertarians 11–12, 42–3, 237

Limbaugh, Rush 3, 200

Lindbergh, Charles 47–8

Locke, John 71–2, 88

Lodge, Henry Cabot 47

Lodge, Milton 22, 31, 264

Lysenko, Trofim 99, 200

M

M’Naughton, Daniel 80–1

Madison, James 2, 258–60, 265

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 154,

Malkin, Michelle 3

Mao 73, 245

Marcus, Gary 207

Martin, Nick 186, 200

Marx, Groucho 25, 28, 72

Marx, Karl 35, 72, 241

marxism 34, 36, 56, 226

McCabe, Kevin 65, 87

McCrae, Robert 104, 115, 271

McGuire, Eleanor 193–4

mendellian genetics 99, 214

Mill, John Stuart 11–12, 30

Miller, Andrew 217, 233

Milgram, Stanley 59–65, 87

monozygotic twins 184–9, 192

Mooney, Christopher 28, 32, 145

moral foundations 26, 51, 105–16, 161, 163, 231, 246, 248

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick 235, 242

Mueller, Dennis 71, 88

Murray, Charles 243–4, 264

music 90, 94–6, 99, 102–5, 110, 190

N

negativity bias 170, 222–6, 231, 246

Neiman, Jayme 112, 115, 116, 199

neoconservatism 36–7, 227

neuroception 246–7, 256

Neuropolitics.org 92, 114

New York Times 34, 157,

Niebuhr, Reinhold 12

Nixon, Cynthia 242–3, 253

noble savage 72–3, 86

O

Obama, Barack 24, 91–3, 142, 242, 257

Obamacare 22

object warping 66

oldfield Mice 228–32

olfaction 113, 191

openness 103–4, 226, 251; and political orientations 104, 105, 124, 226; and tastes and preferences 104; and moral foundations 107; and right wing authoritarianism 107; and values 109–10; and evolution 223

Optimates 50–1

orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) 83

Ortega y Gasset, Jose 117

P

Palin, Sarah 22, 51

parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) 153

Patterson, John 25, 114

Pearson, Karl 245, 264

phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) 112–13

Pinker, Stephen 20, 30, 234

poetry 94, 96–7, 110, 232, 236

polarization 29, 224, 245

polygraph 152, 159

Populares 50–1

R

Ray, J. J. 103, 115

Reagan, Ronald 36, 47, 228

Reed, Kay Rene 173–5, 183–4, 199

Rees, Gerant 154, 156

Republican Party 11, 37, 47–8

respiration 20, 152

right wing authoritarianism (RWA) 102, 107, 186, 189

Robinson, Gene 179

Romney, Mitt 134, 142, 193, 257

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 34–5

Rorschach, Hermann 117–18

Rosenberg, Julius 35

Russell, Bertrand 34

S

Sacks, Oliver 148, 170

salmon, dead 157–8

Sanford, Nevitt 100

Santorum, Rick 33

scatterplot 15–18, 186, 187

Schwartz, Shalom 31, 108–10, 116,

serotonin 169, 197

Settle, Jaime 191, 192, 201

Shapiro, Robert 240, 241, 164

Shook, Natalie 137–40, 145, 154

sickle cell anemia 213

silver foxes 175, 180–1, 183, 211

skin conductance level (SCL) 231–2

Skinner, B.F. 67, 69, 71, 88

Sober, Eliot 219, 233

society works best index 52, 53, 54, 186

sociopathy 214–15

Sophocles 147, 162

Springer, Jim 183–4, 189

stroop test 124–5, 127, 133

Stuart, Robert Douglas, Jr. 47

sympathetic nervous system (SNS) 153, 159, 169, 246

T

Taber, Charles 22, 31, 264

Taft, Robert 47, 57

testosterone 70, 113, 169

threat (perception) 19, 134, 141, 158, 169, 222–3, 230, 246; and political views 22, 135–6, 156, 161, 222–3, 251, 252; and out-groups 44, 46, 48; attention to 130; images 135–6, 161; facial expressions 135–6, 156; and SNS 153, 161

Tomkins, Silvan 25, 31

Tooby, John 88, 211, 223, 233, 234

traumatic brain injury (TBI) 148

U

ultimatum games 62–3

V

vasopressin 177–8, 191, 195–6

Vedantam, Shankar 198, 201, 258, 265

Vidal, Gore 1–4, 28, 40, 45, 51

Vigil, Jacob 135–6, 145

Visscher, Peter 192–3, 201

voles 176–83, 191, 195, 196

W

Wallace, Alfred Russell 198, 199

Washington, George 258, 260

Watson, John 67, 82

Weaver, Jim 183–4, 189

Will, George 12, 27

Wilson, David Sloan 219

Wilson, E. O. 218, 243

Wilson, Glenn 25, 94, 101

Wilson-Patterson 15, 16, 102

Wisotsky, Zev 90, 114

Y

Yarbus, Alfred 130, 144

Young, Everett 123–4

Z

Zimbardo, Philip 60, 62, 87