INDEX
Illustrations or photographs are indicated by bold numbers
Africa, child rape ref1
afterlife ref1, ref2 See also death
agents ref1
ageing ref1
‘Air-Crib’ ref1, ref2
Allen, Woody ref1
‘Aloa, The Alligator Boy’ ref1, ref2
Alzheimer’s disease ref1
Anasazi tribe ref1
animals: cellular memory experiments ref1; genetic engineering of ref1; kosher ref1; Pavlov’s conditioning experiments ref1; souls, search for ref1; taxonomy ref1
animism ref1, ref2
apophenia ref1, ref2
‘apparent mental causation’ ref1
art: authenticity of ref1; prehistoric ref1, ref2, ref3–ref4
associative learning ref1, ref2
atheists ref1, ref2, ref3
Atran, Scott ref1
attachment items ref1
Auld Sod Export Company ref1
Auschwitz ref1
authenticity ref1
babies: analysis of natural world ref1; behaviourism ref1; biology understanding of ref1; brains of ref1; and cause and effect ref1; decoding of reality ref1; eye contact ref1; faces ref1; grasp reflex ref1, ref2, ref3; knowledge (of world) ref1; ‘Little Albert’ experiments ref1, ref2; magic tricks ref1; mind-reading ref1; and missing square pattern ref1; and moral behaviour ref1; movement ref1; reality, sense of ref1; reasoning ref1, ref2; ‘shapka’ experiment ref1; stepping reflex ref1; startle reflex ref1; sucking reflex ref1; unborn ref1 See also children; newborns
babyness ref1
‘Babies are Smarter Than You Think’ (Life) ref1
Barbarella ref1
Baron-Cohen, Simon ref1
Barrett, Justin ref1
Bartlett, Sir Frederick ref1
Báthory, Countess Erzsebet ref1
Beckham, David ref1
behaviour: conditioning mechanism ref1; irrational ref1; moral ref1; obsessive ref1, ref2; staring ref1, ref2 See also rituals
behaviourism ref1
beliefs ref1, ref2; afterlife ref1, ref2; ‘apparent mental causation’ ref1; children’s fantasy figures ref1, ref2; culture, spread by ref1, ref2; female bank worker example ref1; intuitive ref1; phobias ref1; sacred ref1, ref1, ref2; taboos ref1; unseen gaze ref1, ref2; vision, regarding ref1, ref2 See also religion
Bering, Jesse ref1
bestiality ref1
biology: children’s understanding of ref1; DNA ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; essence of life ref1; freaks ref1; genetic engineering ref1; mosaicism ref1, ref1 See also animals
Blackmore, Susan ref1
Blade Runner ref1
Blanc, Lori ref1
blankets, security ref1
Bloom, Paul ref1, ref2, ref3
Bouchard, Thomas ref1
Boyer, Pascal ref1
brain: Alzheimer’s disease ref1; amygdala ref1; DLPC ref1; children’s understanding of ref1; dopamine system ref1; environment and ref1; and facial recognition ref1; frontal lobe ref1, ref2; fusiform gyrus ref1, ref2; insula ref1; limbic system ref1; and mind ref1, ref2; natural reflexes of the ref1; neurotransmitters ref1; old age and ref1; and pattern-seeking ref1; pineal gland ref1; planning function ref1; rational and intuitive systems of thinking ref1; striatum ref1; visual cortex ref1; workings of ref1 See also mind design
Brandes, Bernd ref1
Bransgrove, Steve ref1, ref2
Breaking the Spell (Dennett) ref1
Brinkley, John R. ref1–ref2, ref3
Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard ref1
Brugger, Peter ref1, ref2
Burke, Pat ref1
Buzan, Deborah Skinner ref1
Byron, Lord ref1
cannibalism ref1
Capgras syndrome ref1
cardigans: Fred West’s ref1, ref2, ref3; Mr Rogers’ ref1
Carey, Susan ref1
‘A Case of the Haunted Scrotum’, (Harding) ref1–ref2
The Cat in the Hat (Seuss) ref1
cause and effect ref1
cave paintings, prehistoric ref1, ref2
caves: Lascaux ref1; Niaux ref2
Chanel No. 5 ref1
Channel 4 ref1
Chesteron, G. K. ref1
children ref1, ref2; and anthropomorphism ref1; ‘apparent mental causation’ ref1; attachment items ref1; beliefs, adoption of ref1; as blank slates ref1; creationism, appeal of ref1, ref2; copy machine experiments ref1; death, understanding of ref1, ref2, ref3; essentialist thinking of ref1; and evolutionary theory ref1; fantasy beliefs of ref1, ref2; gullibility of ref1; intuitive theories used by ref1; life force, understanding of ref1, ref2; mind design in ref1; and promiscuous teleology ref1; reasoning of ref1; security blankets ref1; unseen gaze ref1; and wishful thinking ref1 See also, babies; newborns
chimera ref1
Chomsky, Noam ref1, ref2
church attendance ref1
Clear, Rosie ref1
Clarke, Arthur C. ref1
conditioning mechanism ref1
confirmation bias ref1
connectedness ref1
contagion: moral ref1; supernatural ref1
contamination: and culture ref1; and disgust ref1; essentialism and ref1; exorcism and ref1; killer’s cardigan ref1; Macbeth effect and ref1; and obsessive behaviour ref1, ref2; ‘once in contact, always in contact’ principle ref1; psychological ref1, ref2; and organ transplants ref1; Rozin’s research on ref1; and sex ref1
copy machine ref1, ref2, ref3
Cotard’s syndrome ref1
creation myths ref1
creationism ref1
creativity, and psychotic mania ref1
culture: belief spread through ref1; disgust ref1; and sex ref1; supernatural ideas originating in ref1, ref2, ref3; supernaturalism ref1
cosmetics ref1
Cutty Sark ref1
Dalai Lama ref1
Damasio, Antonio and Hannah ref1, ref2
Darwin, Charles ref1, ref2
Dawkins, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
death ref1, ref2 See also afterlife
decision-making ref1, ref2, ref3
dementia ref1
Dennett, Dan ref1; comparing religion to parasites ref1; ‘intentional stance’ ref1; religious service, attendance by ref1; on ‘Supers’ vs ‘Brights’ ref1
Descartes Baby (Bloom) ref1
Descartes, René ref1
disgust ref1, ref2, ref3
DNA: life essence ref1; cellular memories, transplanted ref1; chimera ref1; genetic engineering ref1; SARS virus ref1
Doctrine of Signatures ref1
Dokic, Jelena ref1
dopamine ref1
Dracula ref1
dualism ref1, ref2, ref3
duplication ref1, ref1
Ebay soul sale ref1
egocentricism ref1, ref2
‘Elephant Man’ ref1
Emin, Tracy ref1
emotions: and brain ref1; decision-making ref1; disgust ref1; regarding duplication ref1; killer’s cardigan response ref1; Rozin’s research on evil ref1, ref2; security blankets ref1; and sex ref1; social triggers ref1
The End of Faith (Harris) ref1
epilepsy ref1
essence of life ref1, ref2, ref3
essences ref1
essentialism ref1; and cannibalism ref1; cellular memories ref1; children’s understanding of ref1; contamination and ref1; and contemporary art ref1; duplication ref1; genetic engineering ref1; of kings and saints ref1; psychological ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; sex ref1, ref2
Euclid ref1
Evans, Margaret ref1
‘evil eye’ ref1
evil objects: contamination response to: ref1; exorcism of ref2
evolutionary theory ref1, ref2, ref3
exorcism ref1
experiences, bizarre ref1
experiments: behavioural ref1; cause and effect ref1; cellular memory ref1; copy box machine ref1; dopamine ref1; duplication ref1–ref2; on emotions ref1; epilepsy ref1; falling cannonballs ref1; flatworms ref1; gambling ref1; genetic engineering ref1; Good Samaritan ref1; gravity error ref1, ref2; honesty ref1; intuition ref1; magic trick ref1, ref2; mice ref1; missing square ref1; Sam’s ‘quiggle’ ref1, ref2; Scopes monkey ref1, ref2; sexual attraction ref1; ‘shapka’ ref1