sensory input, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 9.1
September 11th attacks (2001), 3.1, 8.1
sexuality, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
sexual reproduction, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
Shakespeare, William
sheep, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
sheepdogs
Shereshevsky, Solomon, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Sherif, Muzafer, 8.1, 8.2
shoplifters
shoppers
side effects
sign language
silk stockings
Simons, Dan, 3.1, 3.2
Simpson, O. J., 3.1, 10.1
Sindlinger & Co.
Singer, Jerome
six degrees of separation
sixth-order intentionality
Sizemore, Chris Costner
sketches, police
slower speech
“small-brained” animals
smiles, 5.1, 5.2
Smith, Howard K.
“smoothing,”
social agents
social behavior
of animals
bonding in
categories for
compliance in
in evolution
groups in, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1
hierarchies in
in infants, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
intelligence and, 4.1, 5.1
isolation in
mammalian, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
networks of
norms for
perception in, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1
rejection in
survival and, 4.1, 4.2
theories of, prl.1, 4.1
understanding of, 4.1, 4.2
social network index
social neuroscience, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2
social psychology, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1
soft drinks
Somerville, Mass.
Southern Governors’ Conference, 6.1, nts.1
speech, see language
spider monkeys
sports, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
staged conflicts
statistics, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1
steady state theory
stereotypes, 7.1, 8.1
stigmatization
stock market, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1, 10.1
Stone Age
stress, 9.1, 9.2
strokes, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
structure, brain, 2.1, 4.1
students, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2
subatomic particles
submissiveness
summer camps
sunshine
supernatural, 3.1, 4.1
support groups
“Suproxin,”
surface structure (in linguistics)
surgery, 4.1, 9.1
surnames, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1
survival, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 8.1, 10.1
suspects, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1
Syria
“TAA enzyme,”
Tajfel, Henri, 7.1, 8.1
tape recordings, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
tardiness
target dates
taste, 1.1, 2.1
teachers
teammates
technology
telephone game
television
temporal lobe
terrorism
testimony, witness
testosterone
Texas
thalamus
Thatcher, Denis
Thatcher, Margaret
theft, 3.1, 8.1, 10.1
theories, scientific, 1.1, 10.1, nts.1
theory of mind (ToM), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1
third-order intentionality
Thompson, Jennifer, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Thompson, Mr. (case study)
three-dimensional space
thresholds
throat-clearing
thumbnails
ticker symbols
“tie-signs,”
Time
tips, 1.1, 6.1
TN (case study), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1
tortoises, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
total recall, 3.1, 7.1
touch, sense of, prl.1, 2.1, 6.1
“touchy-feely” individuals
traits, personality
transcripts, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
translation software
trench warfare
trials, 3.1, 7.1, 10.1
trial transcripts
trust
truth, 10.1, 10.2
two-dimensional space
two-tier processes, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1
Tylenol
type fonts, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2
Unbewusst (unconscious)
unconscious
author’s views on, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1
automated responses in, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1
behavior influenced by, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
brain function and, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1
consciousness compared with, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
in decision making, 1.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
dominance and, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2
emotional connections and, 2.1, 4.1
in evolution, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1
Freudian conception of, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 10.1
instinct and, prl.1, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2
intuition based on, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2
memory and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
“new,”
outward signs of
as parallel or two-tier process, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1
repression in, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
sexual desire and, 1.1, 2.1
sublimation in, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 9.1
survival based on, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 8.1, 10.1
in visual perception
unfiltered memories
Vannes
vasopressin receptors, 4.1, 4.2
ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
verbalization, 5.1, 5.2
vertebrates, 2.1, 4.1
vested interests
videos, 3.1, 5.1
vision systems
visual cortex, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
visual cues, 2.1, 5.1
visual dominance ratio
visual perception, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1
VMPC, see ventromedial prefrontal cortex
vocalizations, 6.1, nts.1
voice quality, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1
voles
volume, speech
von Osten, Wilhelm
waiters, waitresses, 1.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Wall Street, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 8.1
Wall Street Journal
warfare, 1.1, 2.1
Warner Brothers
warnings
“War of the Ghosts, The,”
Washington, University of
Watergate scandal, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
WBBM
weather
Weber, E. H., prl.1, 2.1
“We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (Dick)
weights experiment, prl.1, 2.1
“What Is an Emotion?” (James)
whisper game
wine, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
witnesses
Wizard of Oz, The
wolves
women, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2
word lists
World War I
Wundt, Wilhelm, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2
yoga
Yom Kippur War
Ypsilanti State Hospital
zygomatic major muscles
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leonard Mlodinow received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches at the California Institute of Technology. His previous books include War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra); the national best sellers The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) and The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (a New York Times Notable Book and short-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books); Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life; and Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace. He also wrote for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation.