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