criminality 77, 86–8
crowds 183–4
see also herd mentality
crows 26
cultural stereotypes 133, 154–9, 175–6
Cyberball 138–9
Darwin, Charles 30, 53
death delusion 52
decision-making 91, 93, 123–4, 197, 217–18
external influences on 113, 117, 127, 133
justification of 114–15
loss aversion 119, 131, 132
relativity in 124–5
see also choice; compliance
degrees-of-freedom problem 91
deindividuation 137, 138, 146
delay of gratification 78, 79–80, 109
dementia 33, 75, 168, 169
Dennett, Dan xi, 12, 91
depersonalization 52–3
depression 122, 124, 140
deprivation, social 16, 20, 28, 41, 42, 43, 76–7, 194–5
Descartes, René 12
determinism 75, 90, 91, 92, 111
Dick, Philip J. 60
Dietrich, Noah vii
Dijksterhuis, Ap 151
disinhibition 37
dissociative identity disorders (DIDs) 52, 176–9
dopamine 74, 203, 204
Dr Strangelove syndrome 95
dread risks 120
dualism 95
Dunbar, Robin 20–1, 22, 201
Eagleman, David 86
ego theory ix, x
ego-depletion 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 139, 181
Eichmann, Adolf 150
Elliot, Jane 141–2
emotional contagion 47–8, 65, 200
empathy 46–7, 52, 62, 65, 106
endowment effect 131, 132–3
England, Lynndie 150
epilepsy 96, 203
episodic memory 56
Epstein, Robert 190
essential self 80, 82
illusion of a 82, 160, 211
essentialism 80–2
Evans, Dave 198
experiencing self 126
extended self 130, 133
eye movements 10, 213, 217
face-blindness 27
Facebook 188, 199, 201
facial recognition 27–8
Fallon, Jim 74, 75–6
false beliefs 63
false memories 58, 59, 60, 99, 164
fatalism 111, 122
feng shui 155
feral children 38–40
Festinger, Leon 116
Field, Matt 105–6
Field, Tiffany 43
Figes, Orlando 197
Fight Club (film) 177
flashbulb memories 161–2, 163
Flavell, John 23
Forer, Bertram 172
Frankl, Viktor 31
free will 88–90, 91, 93, 97, 98, 101, 103, 111, 122, 217
illusion of 89, 95, 97, 98, 111
Freud, Sigmund 31, 38, 114, 116
friendship formation 185
Frith, Uta 40
fronto-insular cortex (FIC) 66
fugue states 176–7
fundamental attribution error xiv
fusiform gyrus 27
Gagarin, Yuri 102
gallows humour 31
Gallup, Gordon 53
gambling 102, 204
Gazzaniga, Michael 96, 169–70
Gelman, Susan 81
gender identity 69–72
gender stereotypes 70, 71–2, 73–4, 154
genetic determinism 75
Genie 39
Ghahramani, Zoubin 187
‘ghost in the machine’ 89, 90, 91
Gibson, Mel vii
Gigerenzer, Gerd 120
Gladwell, Malcolm 22
glucose 107–8
Goldilocks effect 124
Goodall, Jane 62
Google 187, 198, 199
Gopnik, Alison 64, 65
gorillas 21, 62
gossiping brain 192
Grandin, Temple 66
Grant, Hugh 179
Great Selfini 98, 105, 111
Green, Sir Allan 179
group cohesion 33, 137–8, 143–4, 153, 199
group membership 140–1, 142, 185
groupthink 136
growth hormones 43
Harlow, Harry 42
Head, Alicia Esteve (‘Tania’) 161, 163–4, 171, 174
Hebb, Donald 5, 43
Helmholtz, Hermann von 114
herd mentality 137, 183, 193, 197
heterophily 185
heuristics 120
hippocampus 55
hoarding 130
Holocaust 31, 129, 149
homophily 185, 199, 200
homunculus 12, 89
Howe, Mark 60
Hubel, David 16
Hughes, Howard vii
Hume, David ix
Huntington’s disease 105
Hussein, Saddam 117, 149
Hutterite communities 22
hypnotism 53, 99, 100–1
imitation see mimicry
imprinting 17–18, 36
impulse control 49, 75, 153
impulsivity 11, 74, 77–8, 79, 128
individualism 138, 155–6, 159, 175, 176
information theory 4
inhibitory control 10, 11, 37, 49, 79, 86, 127, 190
see also self-control
inner self, notion of the ix, 11, 12, 13, 215
insanity defence 87
insula 47, 132
intermittent reinforcement 203–4
Internet 181, 218
see also the Web
Internet addiction 204, 205
Internet sex 208–10
interpreter system 169
Iraq War 117
isolation see deprivation, social
Itakura, Shoji 45
Itard, Jean 38–9
James, William 25, 128, 158
Kagan, Jerry 37
Kahneman, Daniel 126, 127, 131
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette 35
Keysers, Christian 64, 67
Knutson, Brian 132
Korsakoff’s syndrome 168–9
Lamarckian inheritance 186
Langer, Ellen 119
language development and learning 18–19, 20
laughter 30–3, 47
law enforcement 148–9
learned helplessness 121–2
Levi-Leleu, Michel 129
Lewinsky, Monica 19
L’Hermitte, François 97
Libet, Benjamin 93, 94
limbic system 8, 77, 104, 135, 162
Lipkins, Susan 209
locating the ‘self’ 11, 12, 12
Locke, John 25, 166
locusts 21
Loftus, Elizabeth 58, 60
looking-glass self xiii, 51–2, 68, 174, 215
Lorenz, Konrad 17, 34
loss aversion 119, 131, 132
Lucifer effect 144–6
McAdams, Dan 171
Machiavellian intelligence 21, 27, 29, 35, 152, 190
McLuhan, Marshall 205
Macrae, Neil 129
Maddux, William 133
MAOA gene abnormality 74
Marx, Groucho 140
Maslach, Christina 146
mass shootings 85, 139–40
materialism 128, 129, 130
The Matrix (film) 2
medial prefrontal cortex 132
memory 54–9, 165
autobiographical 57, 166, 168, 175
copying 165
disintegration 59
effects of meaning and context on 60–1
episodic 56
false memories 58, 59, 60, 99, 164
flashbulb memories 161–2, 163
formation 55, 56, 126, 161
infant and child memories 54, 55, 56, 175–6
loss 55, 168
memory-identity relationship 166, 167
primacy effect 126–7
recency effect 126–7
reconstruction 58
Mencken, H. L. 125
midbrain 8, 104
Miike, Takashi 105
Milgram, Stanley 146–8, 149, 163
Milligan, Billy 177
mimicry 28–9, 34, 44–5, 46, 47, 48–9, 50, 65, 66, 97, 99, 139, 151–2, 154, 183, 200, 215
mindblindness 64–6
Mirren, Helen 191, 192, 194
mirror misidentification 52, 53, 215
mirror neurons 45–7, 66, 151, 215
mirror test 53–4, 54, 60, 61, 215
mirror-touch synaesthesia 47, 215
mirroring behaviour see mimicry
Mischel, Walter 78
M’Naghten Rules 87
mob mentality see herd mentality
monkeys 27–8, 35, 42–3, 46
Monty Hall problem 117–19, 131, 120
Moore’s Law 196
moral compass 68, 76, 128, 137, 145
Morris, Katherine 180
Mr Bungle the Clown 209–10
multiple personalities see dissociative identity disorders (DIDs)
multiple realizability 92
multiple sclerosis 33
multiple selves viii, xiii 179–80
Murray, Liz xiii–xiv, 122
myths see self-narratives
Nagel, Thomas 23
narcissism 188
natural selection 17, 25, 186, 198
nature vs nurture 13, 14, 74, 75
Nelson, Chuck 40
neural networks 4, 5–8, 13, 14–15, 27, 57, 67, 77, 90, 92, 194, 216
neuroethics 86
neurons 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 15, 16, 57, 67, 91–2, 203